For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Amoebae receive surprising support in defense against viruses: The bacteria they are infected with prevent them from being destroyed by giant viruses. A research team led by microbiologist Matthias ...

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

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

The gut microbiome, a collection of archaea, bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live in the human gastrointestinal tract, is known to have a powerful influence on our health and well-being that starts ...