AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

Also, there’s still no easy way to test AI designs for larger genomes. While some viruses can “boot up” from just a DNA ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Persistent Covid-19 lasting in a patient for more than two years has led to the novel coronavirus developing dozens of new mutations in the individual, researchers discovered in a new study.

Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously ...

Mutations can result in viruses that infect cells, but can't copy themselves without help from other viruses - now it seems these cheats may outnumber normal viruses in a third of influenza cases, red ...