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Hungry Fungi Chomp on Radiation by Heidi Ledford is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hungry Fungi Chomp on Radiation about?

From plastic to asbestos, cardboard to jet fuel, fungi will eat just about anything. Now researchers have found another dish in the fungal diet: radiation. Not radioactive compounds, which have long been known to be on the menu -radiation itself.Ekaterina Dadachova and her colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have discovered that some fungi can use a molecule called melanin, a pigment also found in human skin, to harvest the energy from radiation and use it for growth. This raises the prospect that astronauts could grow these fungi on long flights into radiation-rich outer space, suggests Dadachova's colleague Arturo Casadevall. The fungi aren't particularly appetizing, however -they resemble the mould on a dirty shower curtain.

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Author
Heidi Ledford
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2007
Language
EN
Field
Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

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