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

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

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

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

University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria ...

A team of researchers designs a ChatGPT that 'speaks in DNA', capable of creating new species that do not exist in nature and ...

After probing the AI model, the team came up with 302 virus designs. The best way to test them, the researchers figured, was to print, or chemically assemble, all of them and unleash them on real ...

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 ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

A new survey3 commissioned by Reckitt's Lysol® Pro Solutions has revealed that – for many U.S. workers – the smell of clean ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to be alive. Nestled inside a tiny plankton cell, researchers found a ...