Every 15 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies from a drug-resistant superbug. A few decades from now, antibiotic-resistant ...

At least 23 cases of a "flesh-eating" bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, have been reported along the Gulf Coast in parts of Florida and Louisiana. A total of 7 people have died from the infection, which ...

AI helped design a working virus that kills bacteria. Researchers explain what it could mean for the fight against antibiotic ...

In a world first, scientists led by a team from Stanford University have created 16 viable viruses that do not exist in nature and were designed by AI. Their experiment, which is published in Science, ...

Bacteria-killing phage viruses souped up with DNA-destroying CRISPR appear to have helped clear up a very serious infection caused by antibiotic-resistant E. coli ...

Researchers used AI to design working bacteriophages for the first time, raising questions about antibiotic resistance and biosecurity.

When a virus enters a cell, its top priority is to replicate its genome rapidly, creating new viruses to infect elsewhere. The host has the opposite priority: to destroy the virus, ideally before it ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological Systems ...

Florida health officials have confirmed a second death in 2026 linked to Vibrio vulnificus, a rare but potentially ...

A TikTok user who went to a clinic expecting treatment for a yeast infection says she left with a chlamydia diagnosis instead, and she is using the experience to urge… The post Woman Goes to Clinic ...

A new study puts some old folk wisdom to "feed a cold and starve a fever" to the test. In mouse models of disease, Yale researchers looked at the effects of providing nutrients during infection and ...