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

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

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

The spiral-shaped bacteria Helicobacter pylori are common and troublesome. More than 13 percent of Americans have an H. pylori infection, although rates vary with age, race and socioeconomic status.

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the two can actually work better together. A team of scientists has built a new ...

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 ...

The CDC will soon recommend that some people take a "morning-after" antibiotic to lower their risk of STIs. But someday, it's possible that bacteria-killing viruses could do this without driving ...