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Egypt: Toxic Fungus From King Tutankhamun's Tomb Yields Cancer-Fighting Compounds
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Egypt: Toxic Fungus From King Tutankhamun's Tomb Yields Cancer-Fighting Compounds
Analysis - In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: "Yes, wonderful things." Within months, however, Carter's financial backer Lord Carnarvon was dead from a mysterious illness. Over the following years, several other members of the excavation team would meet similar fates, fuelling legends of the "pharaoh's curse" that hav…
It is not an esoteric fiction, but a scientific discovery: Aspergillus flavus, a mushroom that is infamous for being suspected of sowing death after the opening of the tomb of Tutânkhamon, could now become an unexpected source of revolutionary treatments against leukemia. A fascinating story where archaeology, molecular biology and [...]
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