AI Could Help You Build a Virus. OpenAI Knows It — and It’s Worried
We should prepare ourselves for a society where amateurs can create garage bioweapons.
Tag: Pathogens
75 people were hospitalized after eating lettuce — and it’s linked to climate change
While foodborne outbreaks are not uncommon, this case uniquely exposed deeper issues about the role of climate change in public ...
Researchers in Singapore have uncovered a new Candida clade. It could be a global threat
It seems to already be present in several countries.
The most important virus you’ve never heard about: the human metapneumovirus
The virus has been flying under everyone's radar, but the CDC reported a sharp uptick recently.
A coat against our troubles: new compound can transform air filters into pathogen-killing machines
It is effective against the coronavirus and a wide range of other disease-causing organisms.
15,000-year-old viruses found in Tibetan glacier ice — and we know nothing about them
Just in case we needed another reason to prevent glaciers from melting.
Want to avoid new pandemics? Preserving biodiversity is step one, research argues
The more diversity we have in nature, the better for our health.
Robots might soon be sanitizing hospital rooms, killing far more bacteria than humans
Robots do a much better job at sanitizing than humans ever could.
Why the WHO put a mysterious ‘Disease X’ on its most-feared list
We don't know anything about disease X -- that's the point.
How Ancestry Shapes Our Immune Cells
The body's defense systems are impressive.
Europeans picked up a customized immune system by having sex with Neanderthals
"Is that a more pronounced inflammatory response or are you just happy to see me?"
