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

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 ...

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.

Through this process, they found that AMA likely requires an enzyme known as STT3B to exert its toxic effects. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now Get the world’s most fascinating ...

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, ...