The statins work by blocking an enzyme called HMG co-reductase, explains Daniel Rader, a cholesterol expert at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The fungus uses a common carbohydrate processing enzyme called acetyl co-A to form the building blocks of hydrocarbons--but its unique chemical pathways are not yet understood nor is the process by which the gases escape the fungal membrane into the air.

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