After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

It’s a breakthrough that sounds straight out of sci-fi. A team at Stanford University announced in a recent preprint that they’ve used AI to generate a virus genome, and from that produced functional ...

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a ...

A rare Unicode character, the right-to-left override (RTLO), can make executable files appear as harmless Word or image documents. This trick is increasingly used in malware campaigns, highlighting ...

Artificial intelligence can design toxic proteins that escape biosecurity cracks, sparking concerns over potential misuse.

Can AI speed up writing vulnerability checks without sacrificing quality? Intruder put it to the test. Their researchers found where AI helps, where it falls short, and why human oversight is still ...