Fungi That Eat Insects Make a Powerful Medicine
<p>Fungi are one of the primary ways that nature recycles the nutrients found in dead organisms or the waste products of living beings. And in the past century, we have discovered that they are also a source of potent medicinals like the antibiotic penicillin, which is made by the <em>Penicillium</em> fungus.</p>
<p>Fungi can also act in many other ways; as pathogens that invade tissues, as important members of the human microbiome and as organisms that help form the Wood Wide Web by establishing networks between various trees that are used to send nutrients and other signals to members in that web.</p>
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