Archive for July 23rd, 2009

Mining the Aspergillus Metabolome

A four million dollar, five-year research program (Mining the Aspergillus Nidulans Secondary Metabolome) headed by Berl Oakley of the University of Kansas has yielded data on the medically useful properties of  the fungal secondary metabolites lovastatin and terrequinone (can’t find any readable info on it).  Oakley began the project at Ohio State University but started [...]

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Badger, Mushroom, Snake

Remember the badger, mushroom, snake video? No? Hmnn. Some middle school kids I was teaching introduced it to me several years ago. I had to admit it was fairly entertaining. Might even be worth another viewing (every few years). According to a comment at YouTube “The actual lyrics are ‘magic magic magic mushroom’. Someone just [...]

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