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

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 ...

Bacteria and viruses are the most common causes of disease, but they have some key differences. Here's what you need to know.

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

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 ...

In laboratory flasks containing just two teaspoons of media, scientists document how rapid adaptation between bacteria and viruses produce complex ecological networks. As conceived by Charles Darwin ...

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

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 ...

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 ...