Scientists transform deadly ancient fungus into potential cancer cure

Dr Sherry Gao, senior study author and associate professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering and in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, said: 'Fungi gave us penicillin.
'These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found.'
The findings come as 60,000 Americans are struck by leukemia every year and about 23,000 die.
Aspergillus flavus was first thrust in the spotlight in the 1920s after a team of archeologists opened the tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt and suddenly become ill. After their deaths, rumors circulated of a curse.