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The products of metabolizing fungi surround us every day, even though often unnoticed, and they have been doing so for many centuries (in the case of beer and bread). More recently (in the past century), industrial production and strain engineering has made many more products available to us –…
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It’s actually true! The giant fungus belonging to the species Armillaria solidipes, also known as honey mushroom, is the biggest living creature on our planet Earth.
Scientists discovered the fungus in the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon, USA, where it might have been growing for more than 2000 years to cover an area of…
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