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Medicinal mushrooms: a rapidly developing area of biotechnology for cancer therapy and other bioactivities

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Historically, medicinal mushrooms (basidiomycetes) have been shown to have profound health promoting benefits and recent studies, which are reviewed here, are now confirming their medical efficacy and identifying many of the bioactive molecules. Methods of large-scale cultivation by solid substrate and liquid culture fermentations are also briefly described.

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  1. Department of Bioscience, University of Strathclyde, 204 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1XW, Scotland

    John E. Smith & Neil J. Rowan

  2. MycoBiotech Ltd., Singapore Science Park 1, Singapore, 118225

    John E. Smith

  3. Cancer Research Campaign, P.O. Box 123, 61 Lincolns Inn Field, London, WC2A 3PX, UK

    Richard Sullivan

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Smith, J.E., Rowan, N.J. & Sullivan, R. Medicinal mushrooms: a rapidly developing area of biotechnology for cancer therapy and other bioactivities. Biotechnology Letters 24, 1839–1845 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020994628109

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