Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve ...

Bacteriophage T7, a virus that preys on E. coli, becomes a more effective killer after spending time aboard the International ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, affecting more than 10 million people each year and caused an | Genetics And Genomics ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found evidence that gut bacteria may contribute to brain damage in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Their study ...

Discover how therapeutic peptides act as biological messengers to treat disease, improve metabolism, and enhance immune ...

Researchers isolated a phage of the Microviridae family from human feces, representing the smallest phage infecting the gut ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can ...

Timing is critical in diagnosing diseases such as cancer. Researchers within The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used a historically underappreciated ...

Bacteria and phages that travel in space behave much differently in microgravity than they do in labs on Earth, exciting ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient's cells.

Researchers have used advanced genetic sequencing on a Brisbane family to identify a gene mutation linked to ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel condition, sparking hopes of new ...