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150 Student Discovers Long-Awaited Mystery Fungus Sought By LSD's Inventor

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/07/2025 14:58 EDT

Student Discovers Long-Awaited Mystery Fungus Sought By LSD's Inventor

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.

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