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Fungal remediation of contaminated war zones

Depleted uranium (DU) from spent ammunition used in the conflicts in Iraq and the Balkans poses a health risk to the inhabitants of those regions. This paper in Current Biology from Marina Fomina et al shows that several species of fungi including one from the mycorrhizal genus [...]

Platypus genome

Neil has a great summary of the results from the Platypus genome sequencing project.