Every 15 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies from a drug-resistant superbug. A few decades from now, antibiotic-resistant ...

Scientists have found that some viruses can deliberately generate genetic diversity to evade bacterial defences, offering a potential new clue for developing treatments when antibiotics fail. View on ...

The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises ...

Artificial intelligence has designed viruses that can infect bacteria and reproduce—a first that shows AI is beginning to do ...

Tiny viruses that infect bacteria could one day help us tackle infections that antibiotics can no longer treat. But first, ...

While these viruses could offer a new weapon in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, the breakthrough also raises ...

When a virus enters a cell, its top priority is to replicate its genome rapidly, creating new viruses to infect elsewhere. The host has the opposite priority: to destroy the virus, ideally before it ...

Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They're invisible to the human eye. They're everywhere. And both can make us sick, even kill us. That last ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological Systems ...

Your bed is your sanctuary, a place where you rest, recover and rejuvenate. But what if the very place you consider a safe haven is actually a breeding ground for bacteria, viruses and germs? Many ...

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 ...

Proper handwashing could save a million lives a year, according to an expert — and yet many people are doing it improperly, often due to misconceptions surrounding the practice. Doctors recommend ...