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.

Scientists may have discovered another unexpected cancer treatment. The treatment stems from cordyceps mushrooms, which are known to many as zombie mushrooms because of their ability to infect, kill, ...

Researchers are currently raising mushrooms that consume a variety of insects. However, these are not ordinary mushrooms, for they may aid in the creation of novel antiviral and anticancer medications ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cordyceps has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries, and, recently, the fungus has started popping up all over ...

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When you think of fungus, you probably think of mushrooms on your pizza or the mould that spoils your bread. But did you know ...

Insect behavior has recently been changed by a certain fungus that belongs to the Ophiocordyceps, in a seemingly systematic manner. This is most commonly witnessed in ants, whereby those that are ...

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.