Unusual fungal metabolites with antitumor activity discovered by crowdsourcing
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Since the discovery of penicillin, fungi have been a nearly inexhaustible source for the discovery of new drugs. "Crowdsourcing", the cooperation of a large number of interested nonscientists, has helped to find a new fungus from which American researchers have now isolated and characterized an unusual metabolite with interesting antitumor activity.