| | Paul Stamets - Kin to the Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | A gifted phrase-maker, Stamets says mushroom are "the grand recyclers of the planet" but have suffered from "biological racism" that has made Americans think that fungi are for pizza and not the medicine chest. |
 | | Stamets has vounded the Mushroom Genome and Mycodiversity Preservation Project, which supports research into practical uses of old-growth forest fungi such as new medicines, enzymes, acids and catalysts, as well as the larger role of fungi in forest ecology. |
 | | Stamets is also working on medicinal applications, studying the ability of one mushroom, Polyporus umbellatus, to inhibit the parasite that causes malaria and working on a grant to explore the anti-HIV properties of oyster mushrooms. |
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