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

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...

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

Here, biology kind of takes over. If the phage genome that the AI model generated is legit, the proteins will start to ...

Current HPV vaccines target the main high-risk virus types but cannot cover all cancer-causing strains, or treat existing infections. In rarer cases, cervical cancer can also arise without HPV ...

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

The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a coronavirus new to science. By March, the infection began to spread to other ...

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...

“We observed the rise and fall of different combinations of mutations at different times of infection, supporting the idea that in long-term SARS-CoV-2 infections, the dominant genome can change over ...

Bats can carry some deadly human pathogens without signs of illness. A new survey shows that other viruses can still be bad for bats.