Flight of the Living Dead: Is the Zombification of Flies Facilitated by an Interkingdom Host Switch?
In July of 2018, the Eisen lab at UC Berkeley published what Michael Eisen described as one of the wackiest discoveries of his career. They discovered a virus that swapped hosts from a fly to a fungus. This virus might underlie the fungus' ability to control the minds of insects. Since the 1850s, people have
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May 22, 2019