The company plans to meet with the FDA to discuss a rolling approval application for “COMP360,” a synthetic form of ...

A compound found in magic mushrooms can treat depression by cutting brain activity that gets people stuck in loops of negative thinking, a new study revealed. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide ...

A species of mushroom has been found producing psilocybin using a completely different pathway to the one used by 'magic' mushrooms, suggesting the psychotropic compound evolved at least twice. The ...

The results are a pivotal achievement for psychedelic medicines. More than 100m people worldwide struggle with depression that does not respond to conventional treatments, and psychedelics have long ...

A series of recent brain-imaging studies has begun to explain a central mystery of the psychedelic experience: why people on ...

Shares of at least four other developers were up by mid-single digits to low-double digits at certain points on Tuesday.

TAMPA, Fla. – Once widely regarded as dangerous and illegal, psilocybin mushrooms are now being closely examined for their potential medical benefits, and some of that research is happening right here ...

Psilocybin for medical use has been legal in Oregon since 2020. Mazatec psilocybin mushrooms during their 3 day drying time after harvest. (Photo by Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty ...

Two paths lead to the same molecule: Independently of each other, different genera of ‘magic mushrooms’ have developed two different enzyme pathways that produce the same psychoactive substance, ...

A study of mice fed a high-fat/high-fructose diet (designed to induce obesity) found that 12 weeks of treatment with low-dose psilocybin reduced weight gain, symptoms of fatty liver, hyperglycemia, ...

Psilocybe cyanescens mushrooms, which contain the active compound, psilocybin. Credit: Imperial College London / Thomas Angus Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, may be at least as ...