In a time when radiation exposure from a number of sources, including air travel, nuclear power, and former testing grounds seems unavoidable, any news of radio-protective substance is good news. Fortunately, emerging research is indicating that melanin in fungi, which is also the pigment responsible for skin color in humans, may not only enable some fungi to survive ionizing radiation, but also to feed off of it.
An early report of this possibility came from Russia in 2001 on the discovery of a melanin-rich species of fungi seeming to thrive within the walls of the Chernobyl meltdown …read more
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