After two long years, the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is almost here. In the new season, five ...

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To determine how her fungus hijacked the fly brain, Elya and her colleagues screened hundreds ... “I became really captivated by these obligate parasites, where they absolutely require the host to ...

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

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

attenboroughii is releasing in the brain of the host ... pointing to the case of the zombie ant fungi. Scientists have documented the lethal parasite regulating the insect population, Araújo ...

fungus, virus, or parasite spreads through the body (via the bloodstream, nerve endings, or even a dormant reactivation in the nervous system) until it reaches the brain or spinal cord.

A new study looking at deadly animal African trypanosomiasis has revealed how the parasite Trypanosoma congolense evades the ...

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

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