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 ...

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 ...

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

"We found the STT3B protein and its biological pathway is critical for toxin cytotoxicity," Wang said. STT3B is involved in the production of N-glycans, which are key for making sure proteins ...

The jury was told both alpha-amanitin and beta-amanitin toxins were detected in Mr Patterson’s urine sample taken in hospital the evening of July 30 – about 32 hours after the meal.

A mushroom called the death cap — Amanita phalloides — and dozens of related species containing the same toxin, alpha amanitin, account for the vast majority of mushroom-poisoning deaths.

Beta-amanitin toxins were also detected in one meat sample, he said. In samples supplied of “vegetable matter” located in a dehydrator, Dr Gerostamoulos said both alpha-amanitin and beta ...

The toxic effect of α-amanitin results from its interference with proper functioning of RNA polymerase II. Studies of resistant lines of D. melanogaster, however, ...

Under a column for alpha-amanitin and beta-amanitin, the table shows that the toxins were found in Donald Patterson's urine. It was not detected in blood samples, or in any of the post-mortem samples.