phage therapy

CRISPR-armed virus clears superbug in medical first

A 65-year-old kidney transplant patient suffering from a multidrug-resistant E. coli infection that had defied every available antibiotic has recovered after receiving an experimental bacteriophage therapy armed with CRISPR gene-editing technology — the first time such a treatment has been…

AI designs first functional viruses not found in nature

Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute have used artificial intelligence to design 16 functional viruses with genomes never before seen in nature, in what scientists describe as a "very significant turning point" for synthetic biology. The work, published…