LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a fungus responsible for deteriorating fabric in the South Pacific during World War II could boost ethanol production.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif., May 5 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found a biomass-degrading fungus has few genes used to break down plant cell walls, providing a possible use in biofuel production.

WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- U.S. government scientists have completed DNA sequencing of a fungus that forms a beneficial symbiosis with trees in North American and Eurasian forests.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif., June 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have extracted and decoded the DNA of a cave bear dead for 40,000 years, but doing the same for dinosaurs remains science fiction.

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