The jury in Erin Patterson's trial sat through weeks of evidence before convicting her of murder. On Monday, Patterson was ...

Symptoms can take six to 24 hours to appear, meaning many people don’t realise they’re in danger until it’s too late.

Erin Patterson served four relatives of her estranged husband a lunch made with death cap mushrooms. Three of them died after ...

Erin Patterson, 50, invited Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail Patterson's sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66, to the fatal ...

α-Amanitin, a bicyclic octapeptide produced by the death-cap mushroom, is one of the deadliest known peptide toxins. Researchers are exploring antibody-drug conjugates of it as possible ...

How Poisonous Mushrooms Cook Up Toxins Date: November 14, 2007 Source: Michigan State University Summary: Scientists have identified genes that produce the poison of the death cap mushroom -- a ...

We list all the mushrooms in Scum and how valuable they are as well as which you should avoid and all of their effects.

Synthetic mushroom toxin New synthetic route for amanitin, a therapeutically interesting mushroom toxin Date: February 4, 2020 Source: Wiley Summary: ...

How alpha-amanitin kills isn’t fully understood. A team of researchers in China and Australia used the gene editor CRISPR/Cas9 to determine which human genes the toxin triggers to cause cell ...

The death cap mushroom is highly toxic. However, some of its toxins can also be healing: amanitins are potential components for antibody-based cancer treatments. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, ...

Galerina marginata, or funeral bell mushrooms. A new paper asserts that the fungus obtained its alpha-Amanitin toxin from another mushroom. Credit ...