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Fungi could be the key to major cancer research breakthroughs

Photographed in a studio, these intertwined wavy caps of <i>Psilocybe cyanescens</i> are among the many species of psychedelic mushrooms found along the west coast of North America.

2024-04-11    

“Initially, we were astounded,” says Iliyan Iliev, an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York and one of the researchers who made the fungi-cancer connection. In addition to Candida, his team found several other fungal species that were associated with the disease, such as Blastomyces in lung cancer and Malassezia, a variety of yeast, tied to breast cancer.

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