Student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the ...

The Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas is home to a fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) that turns caterpillars into zombies. It’s part of the same Cordyceps fungal group that inspired the video game ...

The Gibellula attenboroughii is, to a degree, the cousin of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungi. They both force the infected to climb as high as they can before the fungus grows out of their bodies ...

A parasitic fungus illness known as Cordyceps brain infection (abbreviated CBI) causes an epidemic that transforms human ...

Since then, her fascination with this fungus has only grown, and the increasing accessibility of genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics technologies has allowed her to dive into the strategies ...

There are currently 100 known Ophiocordyceps species that have the ... said it's "very unlikely" that the fungus would be able to infect humans. The Cordyceps are "not prepared to invade ...

It’s the underground-dwelling larva of one of several species of the ghost moth that has been infected by spores from a parasitic fungus called Ophiocordyceps sinensis. The fungus devours the ...

In this podcast, student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the Zombie ant-virus. Taryn Pollock is a student at South ...