Can Toxoplasmosis Infection of the Brain Have Long-Term Effects?
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Toxoplasma brain parasites can cause personality alterations. Of all causes of foodborne disease, a brain parasite called…
Toxoplasma brain parasites can cause personality alterations. Of all causes of foodborne disease, a brain parasite called…
Accompanying the new PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary Collection: New Species, PLOS ONE Associate Editor Anna Simonin discusses the…
The Cordyceps fungus has become a fixture in popular media, at least as the go-to comparison/cause for fictional human zombies.
Meet the parasites that can take over mind and body, zombifying their victims!
The Zombie-Ant Fungus.image from http://questionableevolution.com/2012/08/08/the-zombie-apocalypse-already-underway/The world…
The Zombie-Ant Fungus.image from http://questionableevolution.com/2012/08/08/the-zombie-apocalypse-already-underway/ The world…
Zombies are REAL! Episode 29 by Jennifer Gagné (Click here to directly access the MP3) (Access the full text transcript) BRAINS! …
In this round-up, we would like to share with you some of the PLoS ONE articles covered by the media in 2011. It was really…
Zombie ant jack o…
I am fascinated with zombies. Always have been, but even more so since I took an interest in microbiology. The zombie…
The South American rainforests contain fungi that enslave and kill ants. Thanks to the work of Harry Evans and Simon Elliot of…
In this PLoS ONE media digest: four new species of Zombie-ant fungus are found, ancient Britons drink out of skull cups, Jimmy…
A couple of years ago a study was published in The American Naturalist about an interesting fungal parasite known as…
A Camponotus femoratus carcass sprouts an Ophiocordyceps stalk (Ecuador) This week the biodiversity news is abuzz with tales of…
Four new fungi in the genus Ophiocordyceps have been identified. These fungi belong to a group of “zombifying” fungi that…
Cost of select agent research – a post from NIAID funding blog – is this still the case for Coccidioides I wonder?http://bit.ly/e…
A dead ant infected with a parasitic Cordyceps fungus (David P. Hughes).A team of entomologists working in the Brazilian rain…
Zombie fungi have always ranked high on my list of irresistibly interesting yet disturbing organisms. Though these fungi infect…