By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are one of the most urgent health challenges of our time, affecting people, animals, and the ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

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In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at using AI to find new drugs, quantum biotechnology, the ROI of generative ...

Measles cases are surging in the U.S., partly fueled by claims that infection boosts immunity or fights cancer. Here’s what ...

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

A group of volunteers spent days locked in a small hotel room with people actively infected with flu. They played games, ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...