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 ...

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

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

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

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