A new anti-carcinogenic substance was discovered from a poisonous mushroom, “podostroma cornu-damae”. The mushroom is notorious for causing serious poisoning within 30 minutes of consumption.
Professor Kihyeon KIM’s research team discovered a new substance from the mushroom that suppress the development of breast cancer cell. This substance is called “roridin E” and it has anti-carcinogenic effect 500 times stronger than the doxorubicin which is well-known for its use in curing breast cancer.
The joint research team extracted 8 natural substances from the podostroma cornu-damae and proved anti-carcinogenic effect from 5 substances.
The team newly named 3 substances discovered from this research as “miophytocen D”, “Roridin F” and “Satratoxin I”.
This research has been selected as the cover of world-renowned journal, “Journal of Natural Products”.
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