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

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

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

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

In one of the busiest hospitals in Melbourne, a potentially fatal epidemic of antibiotic-resistant germs compelled physicians ...

Amoebae receive surprising support in defense against viruses: The bacteria they are infected with prevent them from being destroyed by giant viruses. Microbiologists have investigated how a virus ...

To reflect this reality, the Gladstone Institute of Virology has taken on a new name: the Gladstone Infectious Disease ...

When some bacteria manage to escape being killed by a virus, the microbes end up hamstringing themselves. And that could be useful in the fight to treat infections. “We’re kind of expecting phage ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

Viruses that infect bacteria are called phages, and scientists have been interested in whether they can be used to target and destroy bacterial infections for hundreds of years. Phages were even in ...

We’re all told that to live longer, we must exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet, get enough sleep, maintain an optimal weight, not smoke, and manage stress. But why do some people naturally make it ...