Researchers are learning more about how the fungus coexists with the morning glory, and their findings are a real trip.

At West Virginia University (WVU), Corinne Hazel, an undergraduate major in environmental microbiology, examined morning ...

An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been ...

A West Virginia University student has identified an elusive fungus that contains psychedelic chemicals similar to LSD.

Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University ...

These are big issues for medicine and agriculture." Hofmann was pursuing the medicinal properties of fungus when he first synthesized LSD. He only discovered LSD's powerful psychoactive effects ...

Scientists have made a discovery which long evaded the father of LSD – after 'stumbling' across the discovery experts have ...

These same ergot alkaloids were modified by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann when he invented LSD in the late 1930s. Hoffman ...

Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified when he invented LSD in the late 1930s. Hofmann hypothesized that ...