Viruses are so simple in their structure, they may not even qualify as living things. Yet, they are ruthless in their robotic ...

Stanford and Arc Institute used AI to design viruses that kill bacteria, sparking hope for new therapies and warnings over biosecurity risks.

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

You called in sick yesterday because you thought you had the flu, but today you feel even worse. You have heavy bleeding and delirium because you’ve got one of the world’s most deadly viruses. What ...

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 ...

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

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...

*Scientists have used artificial intelligence to create functioning viruses for the first time — ushering in a new frontier for synthetic biology and raising profound questions about biosecurity. In a ...

A school-aged child in Los Angeles County has died from a rare but always fatal complication from a measles infection they acquired when they were an infant who was too young to be vaccinated. The ...

The viruses in question are bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria – they can’t infect humans, or any other animals for ...

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a ...