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

Mutations can result in viruses that infect cells, but can't copy themselves without help from other viruses - now it seems ...

Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant ...

Bats can carry some deadly human pathogens without signs of illness. A new survey shows that other viruses can still be bad for bats.

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But ...

A research team from Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and Universitat de València (UV) has developed an innovative biosensor capable of detecting airborne viruses in real-time and at low cost ...

Inject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that ...

A virus found lurking inside a deadly fungus may make the microbe even stronger and harder to kill when it infects people.