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World’s Deadliest Mushroom May Now Have an Antidote

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Nature

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A CRISPR gene-editing technique might have finally cracked the mystery of how death cap mushrooms kill and revealed a possible antidote

Ninety per cent of the fatalities caused each year by ingesting poisonous mushrooms are caused by death caps. Credit: adrianam13/Getty Images
first published on May 16, 2023.

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    Saima Sidik is a science journalist based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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