mushroom – The Loh Down On Science

Shroom with a View

October 17, 2025 Malia Bautista

Is the cure for cancer… psychedelic mushrooms?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Of course not! But they could make life easier for cancer patients. How’s that? Enter Manish Agrawal’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. They ran a clinical trial for the drug

Shroomy Magic

August 3, 2021 Jing Zhang

What makes magic mushrooms so…magic? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying – GROOVY, man! The walls are breathing, and this flower picture is singing to me! What causes those hallucinations? A chemical in the mushrooms called psilocybin! Enter Frederick Barrett at Johns Hopkins University