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Oyster mushroom
Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
David Armstrongpropublica.org
Jenny Odell • On how to grow an idea
Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, created viruses with radioactive tracers in their DNA. They allowed the viruses to infect E. coli and then pulled off their empty husks in a fast-spinning centrifuge.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Shiitake mushroom
Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating
Jan-Erik Asplund • Not Found
This is especially true of the octopus: they can modify the protein processes in their bodies without recourse to DNA mutation.” “Through RNA editing—swapping out one RNA base for another. They can produce molecular diversity quickly, particularly in their nervous systems. It’s an alternative engine for evolution,” Evrim said.
Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea
the federal government’s Bioshield program asked to screen hundreds of the rare mushroom strains in Stamets’s collection and found several that showed strong activity against SARS, smallpox, herpes, and bird and swine flu. (If this strikes you as implausible, remember that penicillin is the product of a fungus.)