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

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 ...

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

Instead of bacteria and viruses burdening us with disease, what if we flipped the script and used their natural talents to give dangerous tumors an infection as a way of fighting cancer? Microbes come ...

In a major advance for infectious disease treatment, researchers from Monash University and The Alfred have developed a ...

Jenny Lehmann is an assistant editor at Discover Magazine who writes articles on microbiology, psychology, neurology, and zoology, and oversees the Piece of Mind column of the print issue. View Full ...

Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time.

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Xiaomi air purifiers also make the perfect gift for those who have allergies. We all have someone in our lives who is really ...

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