Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

The zombie-creating fungus in The Last of Us is real, but there are many other fungi to fear. Of the 5 million fungal species in the world, a few hundred are dangerous to people.

Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects according to a new study of fossils ...

Parasitic fungi have a grip on us, yet most are still a scientific mystery. ... For fans of the show’s lead villain, Cordyceps fungus, there’s also reason to celebrate.

It's the real-life horror story of a flesh-eating, brain-warping fungus from the genus Cordyceps, which inspired the zombie-apocalypse video game and "TV series The Last of Us." Phys.org ...

This fungus, long recognized for its medicinal qualities, could be the key to novel cancer treatments. Orange threads of "Cordyceps militaris" fungus growing on mulberry silkworm pupa in a glass ...

Cordyceps are parasitic fungi that usually attack insects, arthropods, or other fungi. Essentially, the Cordyceps fungus doesn’t tend to bug us too much in real life. However, in The Last of Us ...

Cordycepin for health and wellbeing: A potent bioactive metabolite of an entomopathogenic medicinal fungus cordyceps with its nutraceutical and therapeutic potential. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ...

In reality, "zombie-ant fungus" or Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is a parasitic fungus that infects and manipulates the behavior of carpenter ants, ultimately leading to their death.

Cordyceps has been linked to everything from exercise performance to anti-ageing. But can the Himalayan super-fungus live up to its ... the concept of cordyceps as a zombifying parasitic fungus.

Indeed, Cordyceps has long been studied by the scientific community and is even found in a number of health supplements. But don’t worry - so far none of these "zombie fungi" have evolved to ...

A deadly pest in caterpillars may very well help fend off cancer in humans. Scientists in the UK have found evidence that a parasitic caterpillar fungus contains a key ingredient that could be ...