Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us has gripped viewers once again. In it, a fungus turns humans into zombie-like creatures. But ...

Scientists say the risk to humans, while extremely low, is not zero.

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

They crawl, they control, and they kill—without a sound. These real-life parasites turn their hosts into pawns in a ...

In reality, "zombie-ant fungus" or Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is a parasitic fungus ... cordyceps fungi to adapt from infecting insects to humans. Our body temperature and immunity prevent ...

When I was starting my PhD, people were fascinated by the ‘Planet Earth’ TV series by David Attenborough, where this ant infected by Ophiocordyceps unilateralis staggers ... Quandt says most fungal ...

For example, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis sensu lato specializes in carpenter ants ... Many of these compounds have potential applications in human medicine. For example, cordycepin, a nucleoside ...

Deep in the humid rainforests of South America, Africa, and Asia, a remarkable biological horror story unfolds daily. Unsuspecting ants go about their normal routines until they encounter microscopic ...

Scientists at King's College London say they've successfully grown a human tooth in a lab for the first time. As detailed in a paper published in the journal ACS Macro Letters, the team said it ...