Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

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

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or ...

“It takes time for the parasite to establish itself in a host ... for knowledge gaps and unexplored corners of the enigmatic fungal realm. Their continued ties to the fungal realm and the ...

The parasite basically forms its own nervous system of fungal cells, which allow it to control the ants’ muscles like a puppet. The infected ant is forced to climb the stem of a plant to the ...

Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying ...

Each type of meningitis has a slightly different cause, but each ultimately acts in the same way: A bacterium, fungus, virus, or parasite spreads through the body (via the bloodstream, nerve ...