Can Toxins Incite Fungi To Synthesize Novel Antibiotics?

Reminds me of stamets hydaulic fluid work...maybe.......paul..has some ideas

Doing work with mushroom extracts on bioadjustment of nemetode colonies..moving them to beneficial vars.

Good Luck

Good luck guys. This is a great project employing a simple, novel approach to address something very strongly needed.

Richard is a committed environmental public safety champion. Wish we could replicate him.

Good work guys! Just wondering is this project to upscale it? And are you guys potentially using bacteria as agents to induce bacteria specific antibiotics too? Cause that'd be awesome (but I guess I don't understand the immune responses of fungi to see if this is possible). Can this be upscaled and made into something that can be adoptable for many antibiotics too? check out my project - I'm thinking of listing it on here too - it's a novel mechanism of using cancer cells inside patients to create immune responses against the cancer from the patient that can potentially help ALL cancer patients out in 1 simple method. In combination with other therapies, it could be the cure! http://nikhilthegrizzlybear.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/how-im-planning-to-cure-cancer-my-big.html

We are discovering that we are speaking with ourselves. This concept of exposing common forest fungi/mushrooms to an unknown agonist, more specifically to a man-made industrial chemical/toxin, to which these fungi would never be exposed in nature, we are in fact inciting the synthesis of novel secondary metabolites that can be described only by elucidating the underlying gene expression profiling systems (pathways of synthesis) that remain a mystery to science. Many discoveries remain as simple observations, but we are experiencing the same phenomena now repeatedly. More scientists are becoming interested, now that they can see the pattern, as well. These fungi could save us from ourselves.

I'm super excited to be a third time backer! What is the most surprising thing that has happened since starting the first project?

We are beginning to narrow-down on the character and sources of some of the extreme toxins in sewage sludge. Now that the municipal raw sewage processing systems are claimed to have been improved or extended (in time), we see signs of even more toxicity than before to natural systems in the forests where the sludges are disposed. And what could be the cumulative adverse effects on soils, produce crops and vineyards? Could it be that by extending the processing times in the sewage plant they are in fact increasing the concentration of critical toxins in the resulting sludge and wastewater effluent products? We have work to do! Richard