Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The structure reveals rare whisker-collar features and distant evolutionary ties ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 379, No. 2201, Topics in mathematical design of complex materials (12 July 2021), pp. 1-19 (19 pages) We study ...

A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that not only work in the real world, but are far more infectious than their ...

Structure of an entire DT57C bacteriophage. The entire virus was reconstructed in three dimensions at near-atomic resolution and visualized in this animation. The word “virus” is often associated with ...

Viruses that cause vomiting and diarrhea can remain infectious in water by attaching to microplastics, according to research published in the journal Environmental Pollution. Microplastics, which are ...