What many people don't realize, though, is that this is just one particularly gruesome species of Cordyceps. Researchers know of more than 750 others, each of which bases its life cycle around a ...

Cordyceps mushrooms, which are rare in the wild and challenging to cultivate but have strong therapeutic potential, can be successfully grown on edible insects “Cordycepin is one of the cytotoxic ...

Just in time for Halloween, scientists in Korea say they’ve found a better way to grow an insect-destroying mushroom in the lab. Their work could make studying these fungi easier, which is important, ...

Scientists studying the medicinal potential of a rare insect-eating mushroom have found a way to grow the elusive fungi in the lab, opening the way for the development of new anti-viral and cancer ...