LIYAM CHITAYAT is a Hertz Fellow and MIT Ph.D. student in Computational Systems Biology. She has previously led biodefense ...

Scientists report that targeting sugars on virus surfaces stopped multiple infections, though the approach needs much refinement before human trials.

Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.

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

Scientists have engineered a strain of bacteria with a genetic code unlike anything found in nature, marking a groundbreaking ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

When a disease-causing virus or other organism is transmitted from one species to another, most of the time the infection ...

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

The hydrogels developed with the insights gleaned from machine learning reportedly attained a new level of performance where ...

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

Bioneers lets players design and evolve custom organisms, build tissues, defend against viruses, and manage biological systems in a dynamic microworld.