How can a virus with only five proteins dominate a human cell that contains thousands? This question has long puzzled ...

UD Professor Jodi Hadden-Perilla to use NSF Award for virus studies, assistive technology for the blind, crochet for all Viruses are a strange lot indeed. They possess baffling adaptive abilities, ...

Picture this: a computer sitting in a lab, essentially “thinking up” brand new forms of life from scratch. That’s exactly what just happened at Stanford and the Arc Institute, where researchers used ...

A type of virus thought to be a 'mere curiosity' is plentiful in one common bacteria, and possibly others, a research team has found. The discovery improves understanding of how viruses work and could ...

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

Photo of the research team, featuring Prof. DANG Shangyu, Prof. ZENG Qinglu, Dr. CAI Lanlan, Mr. LIU Hang (With the 3D printed cyanophage structure in his hands), and Mr. XIAO Shiwei, from left to ...

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Scientists have engineered a groundbreaking cancer treatment that uses bacteria to smuggle viruses directly into tumors, bypassing the immune system and delivering a powerful one-two punch against ...