The experiment involved two species of fruit flies ( Drosophila ). The team prepared food for the larvae, with a little extra ...
Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its ...
A species of mushroom has been found producing psilocybin using a completely different pathway to the one used by 'magic' mushrooms, suggesting the psychotropic compound evolved at least twice. The ...
Psilocybe cubensis, a mushroom that produces the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Felix Blei / Leibniz-HKI Researchers don’t know exactly how psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in psychedelic ...
Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least twice in mushrooms, and in very different ways. Researchers in Germany and ...
Two distantly related groups of mushrooms take radically different routes to producing psilocybin, a mind-bending molecule. By Rachel Nuwer No one knows why magic mushrooms evolved to produce ...
Psilocybin, the hallucinogen in some mushroom species, has now been shown to increase the lifespan of both cells and mice. The magic happens because psilocybin slows down the senescence, or ...
The Trump administration is set to weigh in on whether the hallucinogenic compound psilocybin should be moved into a less restrictive class of drugs under federal regulations. Regulation of psilocybin ...
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