Picture this: a computer sitting in a lab, essentially “thinking up” brand new forms of life from scratch. That’s exactly ...

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make ...

The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.

Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye. They’re everywhere. And both can make us sick. Bacteria and viruses ...

The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...

Where will the next pandemic come from? One expert says his "bet is on viruses." (Getty Images/Science Photo Libra) Nearly four years after COVID-19 emerged, public health experts already say it’s not ...

Scientists have engineered a groundbreaking cancer treatment that uses bacteria to smuggle viruses directly into tumors, bypassing the immune system and delivering a powerful one-two punch against ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological ...