After probing the AI model, the team came up with 302 virus designs. The best way to test them, the researchers figured, was ...

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

In a breakthrough that pushes the boundaries of synthetic biology, researchers have for the first time used artificial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jenny Lehmann is an assistant editor at Discover Magazine who writes articles on microbiology, psychology, neurology, and zoology, and oversees the Piece of Mind column of the print issue. View Full ...