Galagan’s Fungus Bound for Fame

Jun 01, 2003

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Things are ripping right along for Whitehead’s Fungal Genome Initiative, thanks to the wrapping up of a two-year effort to sequence Neurospora crassa. And the insights scientists are reaping from this fungus, the common bread mold, are downright fascinating, if you ask institute computational biologist James Galagan.

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