{"id":148533,"date":"2022-10-19T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-work-out-how-to-grow-zombie-mushrooms-in-a-lab-it-could-help-unlock-new-virus-fighting-anti-cancer-drugs"},"modified":"2022-10-19T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:31:38","slug":"scientists-work-out-how-to-grow-zombie-mushrooms-in-a-lab-it-could-help-unlock-new-virus-fighting-anti-cancer-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-work-out-how-to-grow-zombie-mushrooms-in-a-lab-it-could-help-unlock-new-virus-fighting-anti-cancer-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Work Out How To Grow Zombie Mushrooms In A Lab \u2014 It Could Help Unlock New Virus-Fighting, Anti-Cancer Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-work-out-how-to-grow-zombie-mushrooms-in-a-lab-it-could-help-unlock-new-virus-fighting-anti-cancer-drugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from Korea and Egypt have discovered a better way to grow insect-hunting fungi in a lab, according to research published Wednesday in Frontiers in Microbiology.<\/p>\n<p>The fungi can be grown using grains like brown rice but they do not produce much cordycepin, prompting the researchers to suggest insects\u2014which are a richer protein source and the fungi target in nature\u2014as a better alternative. fungi, which infect and zombify insects, are difficult to cultivate but contain chemicals that could help fight cancer and viruses and possibly help treat Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists from Korea and Egypt have discovered a better way to grow insect-hunting fungi in a lab, according to research published Wednesday in Frontiers in Microbiology. The fungi can be grown using grains like brown rice but they do not produce much cordycepin, prompting the researchers to suggest insects\u2014which are a richer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}