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fungus

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

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Sep 24, 2021 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Hillenmeyer: Lipitor originated from fungal compounds
“That's a blockbuster hundred billion dollar cholesterol drug Lipitor originally found in a fungus because cholesterol is essential.”
Maureen Hillenmeyer Sep 24, 2021 ▶ 5:42 Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 24, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hillenmeyer: Fungi mutated their own pathways to survive producing statins
“So this fungus that evolved the statin originally had to protect itself by mutating its own cholesterol, and we can see that in the DNA sequence, so we call it a toxin-antitoxin pair.”
Maureen Hillenmeyer Sep 24, 2021 ▶ 5:55 Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale
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