Three years ago I went to a huge taxus x media "nursery", where they grow
thousands of that type of yew tree from which the cancer drug Taxol is
extracted. It's a multi-million dollar "biotech" industry. It's intrigued
me ever since, and now it appears our own U of M thinks mushrooms may have
cancer-fighting properties. I wonder if they need some more places around
here to grow them...
see below, FWDed by
A. M. Hine
Armstrong Av
Beth Storey
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Foray leader in the news...
For those interested in fungi, check out our
summer 2004 fungi foray leader Bryn Dentinger in
Bell Museum's Imprint magazine:
http://www.bellmuseum.org/imprint.html.
Bryn will also present a "crash course in
mycology" at the Kitty Cat Klub tomorrow night:
>Caf� Scientifique : Mushrooms and Medicine
>With Bryn Dentinger, Graduate student and researcher in the University of
>Minnesotas Department of Plant Biology.
>Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 6-8p.m.
>Kitty Cat Klub, Dinkytown.
>Free. Participants must be 18 or older to attend.
>
>Join us for a crash course in mycology, the study and classification of
>mushrooms and fungi, with University of Minnesota graduate student and
>researcher Bryn Dentinger. Learn about groundbreaking research by
>University of Minnesota scientists into the evolutionary relationships of
>various fungi, and how that research is helping to determine the possible
>cancer-fighting properties of certain edible mushrooms.
>
>Cafe Scientifique is a monthly forum on science and culture hosted by the
>Bell Museum of Natural History and sponsored in part by Sigma Xi. For
more
information visit www.bellmuseum.org or contact
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