Artificial intelligence has made it possible to design viruses capable of infecting bacteria and multiplying. Of nearly 300 genomes created and then tested, 16 produced functional viruses. Several ...

The microbial ecosystem nesting in your mouth is giving scientists a rare tool to learn about how bacteria multiply. One of the most common bacteria living in your dental plaque, a filamentous ...

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases. It does this by ...