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fungi

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 24, 2021 by Joe Lonsdale · across every show →

Everything said about fungi, oldest first

Sep 24, 2021 positive
Insight
Lonsdale: Fungal defense compounds can likely target most mechanisms in human cells
“And so there's like thousands of types of things inside of fungi, and a lot of those echo the things and types of our cells, and so because they learn to fight each other in different ways, they can probably target most things in our cells as well.”
Joe Lonsdale Sep 24, 2021 ▶ 2:51 Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 24, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Hillenmeyer: Only 0.1% of estimated fungal species have been sequenced
“So scientists estimate there's about five million species of fungi on the planet, and only 5000 have been sequenced.”
Maureen Hillenmeyer Sep 24, 2021 ▶ 3:27 Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 24, 2021
Assertion Supported
Hillenmeyer: Fungi share about 6,000 genes with humans
“So humans have about 20,000 genes we know now from the Human Genome Project. Fungi have about 6000 that are the same in humans, are very similar.”
Maureen Hillenmeyer Sep 24, 2021 ▶ 3:01 Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 24, 2021
Assertion Supported
Hillenmeyer: Fungi and humans are surprisingly closely related evolutionary relatives
“Compared to bacteria. There's the tree of life. There's bacteria, viruses way over here. Fungi and humans are actually pretty closely related, surprisingly.”
Maureen Hillenmeyer Sep 24, 2021 ▶ 2:36 Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 24, 2021 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Hillenmeyer: 99.9% of wild fungi cannot be cultured in laboratories
“So most of these fungi won't grow well in laboratories. That's part of why only the .1% has really been worked on. The 99.9% don't really grow well in the lab.”
Maureen Hillenmeyer Sep 24, 2021 ▶ 7:15 Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale
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