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Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks
to rescue the study of mushrooms away from forest gourmets and
psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets' research is the
Northwest's native fungal genome, mycelium, but along
the way he has filed 22 patents
for mushroom-related
technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick
insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the
neurotoxins used in nerve gas.
There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets
believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy
by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to
create an ecological footprint on a new planet.
Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
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