The team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

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The approach combines the bacteria's instinct for homing in on tumors with a virus's knack for infecting and killing cancer ...

Scientists discover a giant dormant virus in laboratory algae. Punuivirus is capable of host integration and activating ...

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the ...

Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) organisms could be a major threat to humans in the future, but airplane lavatories could be a ...

There is no credible evidence that mRNA vaccines cause viral mutations or that they’re don't work for infections like ...