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 ...

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

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

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

Inject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that ...

Japanese authorities have had enough of spam emails and viruses, and decided that there’s only one way to deal with them: Jail time. Admittedly, that’s not the only option for those falling foul of ...

How vast was the Great COVID Cover-up? Well, my investigation has recently discovered government officials from 15 federal agencies knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...