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Message   VRSS    All   Student Discovers Long-Awaited Mystery Fungus Sought By LSD's In   June 7, 2025
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Title: Student Discovers Long-Awaited Mystery Fungus Sought By LSD's Inventor

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/1...

LSD "is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress
disorder and addiction," notes Science Daily. And now a microbiology student
"has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the
semisynthetic drug..." Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that
produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified
when he invented LSD in the late 1930s. Hofmann hypothesized that a fungus in
morning glories produced alkaloids similar to those in LSD, but the species
remained a mystery... The researchers dubbed the fungus "Periglandula
clandestina" for its ability to have eluded investigators for decades.

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