First Edition THE world’s oldest fungus is alive and well after spending more than 50 centuries

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THE world’s oldest fungus is alive and well after spending more than 50 centuries ekeing out a living in a leather boot, writes Steve Connor.
Scientists studying the footwear of the early Bronze Age iceman who died in the Alps 5,300 years ago have managed to grow the fungus from spores found on the hay he stuffed in his boots for insulation.Kurt Haselwandter, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and his colleague Michael Ebner, say the fungus was alive when the man died.Although the spores were dormant they came back to life when the scientists transferred them to a nutrient jelly making them the world’s oldest known living fungi, the scientists say in the current issue of New Scientist.Archaeologists believe the iceman, discovered by walkers in 1991 on Austria’s border with Italy, has been covered by ice since his death which has provided the perfect sub-zero conditions for preserving the fungal spores.The next step for the researchers is to compare the genes of the iceman’s hay fungus with present-day varieties to see if any genetic changes have come about in the intervening years – roughly 60,000 generations for the microbe.Iceman’s fungus awakes 50 centuries on. Though he made several more films only one, Losey’s off-beat science-fiction thriller The Damned, filmed in England in 1961, was notable.In 1965 he created the television role of the kindly patriarch Dr Tom Horton in the daytime soap opera The Days of Our Lives and was to play the role for nearly 30 years, opening each show with his voice- over intoning, ‘Like sands through the hour-glass, so are the days of our lives.’ The role brought him two Emmy Awards (1974 and 1975) as Best Actor in a Daytime Drama.Carey wrote three books of poetry and in 1991 an autobiography, The Days of My Life, which revealed that his lifelong drinking problem was finally vanquished when he joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1982.(Photograph omitted). A kilogram (2.2lb) of cocaine wholesales for between dollars 10,500 ( pounds 7,300) and dollars 40,000 in the United States, while a kilogram of heroin costs dollars 50,000 to dollars 250,000 on the wholesale market, according to the department’s annual report on international drugs. But there is no denying Sir Thomas Graham Jackson’s Victorian Gothic pavilion its place among the game’s fine buildings. A properly funded national scheme along these lines is required.Mr Clarke has rightly identified the need to reconcile a flexible market economy with civilised levels of welfare provision. The rebels, meanwhile, are taking their time to capture the heavily defended capital.’It can’t get any worse than this,’ said Dr Sundin, surveying the carnage around him ‘Can it?’.

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