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Fungi are responsible for rotting fruit, crumbling brickwork and athlete’s foot. They have a mouldy reputation; but it’s their ability to destroy things that enables new life to grow. 90% of all plants depend on fungi to extract vital nutrients from the soil. And it’s probably thanks to fungi that the first plants were able to colonize land 450 million years ago. Professor Lynne Boddy shares her passion for fungi with Jim Al-Khalili and describes some of the vicious strategies they use to defend their territory. Direct strangulation and chemical weapons; it’s all happening underground.
BBC Radio 4 2016
Medical and Patient education videos
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Talk by Gilbert Massard – at the Aspergillosis for Patients meeting in Rome, Feb 3rd 2010
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Talk by David Andes – at the Aspergillosis for Patients meeting in Rome, Feb 3rd 2010.
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Talk by Brahm Segal – at the Aspergillosis for Patients meeting in Rome, Feb 3rd, 2010.
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Talk by David Denning – at the Aspergillosis for Patients meeting in Rome, Feb 3rd, 2010.
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Talk by Russell Lewis – at the Aspergillosis for Patients meeting in Rome, Feb 3rd, 2010.
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An introduction to this meeting by Dr Geoffrey Scott, Consultant Microbiologist.
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Talk by Rick Moss – at the Aspergillosis for Patients meeting in Rome, Feb 3rd, 2010.
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Talk by Malcolm Richardson – at the Aspergillosis for Patients meeting in Rome, Feb 3rd, 2010, with specific references to aspergillus.
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Opening of the UK’s first National Centre for Aspergillosis was marked by a series of short talks from Doctors, Scientists and Patients.