Plundering the fungal factories of ants for new drugs

In the search for powerful anticancer and antifungal drugs, scientists are looking somewhere new — fungus-farming ants. A new collaborative research program has received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the State of São Paulo Research Foundation in Brazil. Jon Clardy, a professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS and one of the leaders of the project, is quoted.

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