Mushrooms are being enlisted in the war on cancer, writes LINDA MARSA.
DURING World War II, the development of penicillin was credited with saving thousands of Allied lives. Afterward, battalions of scientists swarmed over swamps, marshes, jungles and forest underbrush looking for other fungi that could combat infection. Researchers screened thousands of compounds, leading to the discovery of streptomycin and other early antibiotics.
