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

Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing ...

It sounds like the start of a sci-fi film, but scientists have shown that AI can design brand-new infectious viruses the ...

Viruses easily spread between humans through coughs, needles, and sex. Animals can also infect humans through infected feces, blood, and tissue.

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 ...

When 99-year old Florentina Martin caught the coronavirus in September, her grand-daughter's greatest fear was not that the disease would kill her, but that she would end up alone on an emergency ward ...

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

Alcohol, bleach, hydrogen peroxide, and quaternary ammonium compounds are the main active ingredients found in effective ...

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 ...

*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 ...