Of course, all insects are different from one another. Finding the right ones to best grow the zombie-making fungus involved the equally gruesome process of testing different bugs as a growth medium.

In nature, spores of Cordyceps mushrooms infect insects and sprout into fruiting bodies, killing the insects in their feeding frenzy. Despite the mushroom’s gruesome eating habits, the medicinal ...

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I have never really been interested in ghosts, mummies or zombies, not even at Halloween. But as October 31 approaches each year, I am reminded of a biological tale involving all three. It's the ...

The Cordyceps mushroom is best known for its gruesome eating habits: famously, its spores infect insects and kill them, growing into fully-fledged fruiting bodies that sprout from the insects' flesh.

Just in time for Halloween, scientists in Korea say they’ve found a better way to grow an insect-destroying mushroom in the lab. Their work could make studying these fungi easier, which is important, ...

A team of scientists from Korea and Egypt have discovered a better way to grow insect-hunting fungi in a lab, according to research published Wednesday in Frontiers in Microbiology, a breakthrough ...

Scientists studying the medicinal potential of a rare insect-eating mushroom have found a way to grow the elusive fungi in the lab, opening the way for the development of new anti-viral and cancer ...

The HBO series "The Last of Us" premiered on Jan. 15, and was watched by 4.7 million viewers – one of the largest HBO debuts ever. Its storyline is a grisly one. A naturally occurring fungus known as ...

Not that they need any help, but HBO’s “The Last of Us” has made mushrooms cooler than ever, thanks to the prominent role a parasitic fungus plays in the collapse of society. The creators of the TV ...

I first heard about them when I was in the depths of my YouTube-induced vegan era. Functional mushrooms were just beginning to come onto the scene (or were just starting to be pumped into my algorithm ...

Cordyceps mushrooms, which are rare in the wild and challenging to cultivate but have strong therapeutic potential, can be successfully grown on edible insects “Cordycepin is one of the cytotoxic ...