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How to make a zombie cockroach

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Researchers discover how wasps' venom makes roaches their slaves.

Researchers have worked out the neurological trick used by a species of wasp to turn cockroaches into 'zombie slaves'. The discovery explains why, once stung, cockroaches can be led by a much smaller master towards certain death. Researchers have proven their theory by replicating the effect, and by using an antidote injection to release the cockroaches from their zombie state.

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  1. Rosenberg, L. A., Glusman, J. G. & Libersat, F. J. Exp. Biol. 210, 4411?4417 (2007).

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Hopkin, M. How to make a zombie cockroach. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2007.312

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