Picture this: a computer sitting in a lab, essentially “thinking up” brand new forms of life from scratch. That’s exactly ...

Starting with tiny molecular building blocks, researchers in Rockville have made a functioning virus in record time and with unprecedented precision, a significant step toward the goal of being able ...

The young scientist, normally calm and measured, seemed on edge when he stopped by his boss's office. "You are not going to believe this one," he told Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical ...

Scientists have for the first time used artificial intelligence to design viruses capable of killing harmful bacteria. In a major leap for computational biology, researchers at Stanford University and ...

DALLAS - Scientists have built the polio virus from scratch in the laboratory, a sign that terrorists could make dangerous viruses from widely available genetic information. Guided by the published ...

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

Genome engineering allows scientists to modify the genetic code of microbes. Now, researchers have engineered the genome of the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) to make it immune to viral ...

Could a virus treatment designed by Boston researchers be the key to treating the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma? Brigham and Women’s Hospital scientists report that they have created a ...

Attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos will discuss the prospect of a virus far more potent than COVID being unleashed across the world. The hypothetical virus, dubbed by the World Health ...