Ten years ago, Jeff Deal stuck pie plates on the wall in his brother’s garage, swiped them with infectious staph bacteria, then turned on an ultraviolet light robot the two had invented. Its rays ...

Seattle startup Singletto is marketing a medical mask that includes its Oxafence technology, which is proven to kill viruses. (Singletto Photo) COVID-19, at the moment, might feel safely in the ...

A petri dish full of dead bacteria isn’t usually cause for celebration. But for Stanford’s Brian Hie it was a game-changer in his efforts to create synthetic life. The perpetrator was a type of virus ...

Instead of bacteria and viruses burdening us with disease, what if we flipped the script and used their natural talents to give dangerous tumors an infection as a way of fighting cancer? Microbes come ...