Psilocybe cubensis, a mushroom that produces the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Felix Blei / Leibniz-HKI Researchers don’t know exactly how psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in psychedelic ...

The closest wild relative to the world's most popular "magic mushroom" Psilocybe cubensis has been given a preliminary name: Psilocybe ochraceocentrata. The two species shared a common ancestor 1.5 ...

DEA approval allows Mycrodose Therapeutics to become the first vertically integrated US Pharmaceutical company utilizing psilocybin-based psychedelic medicine. Approval also allows Mycrodose the ...

These mushrooms have gained significant attention as pyscohoplastogens for the treatment of brain-related conditions, including mental health disorders (such as anxiety, depression, bipolar, autism, ...

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Researchers in Australia have analyzed the genomes of over 100 commercial and wild-grown varieties of Psilocybe cubensis, a psychoactive fungi known as the magic mushroom. The findings may eventually ...

A team of biologists, mycologists and microbiologists in the U.S., South Africa and Zimbabwe reports that a species of ...

Penis envy mushrooms are a variety of mushrooms that contain the psychedelic compound psilocybin. Although some people report mental health benefits, like any other drug, they carry risks. As the name ...