When scientists sent bacteria and their viral predators, bacteriophages, to the International Space Station (ISS), they ...

Viruses infected bacteria differently on the ISS than on Earth Microgravity altered infection speed, growth, and mutations ...

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

Experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that bacteriophages can still infect Escherichia coli under ...

Researchers studying cyanobacteria from hot springs in Thailand have discovered a new natural UV-blocking compound with ...

Pennington Biomedical researchers have investigated the systems of the body that regulate weight, exploring whether our ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

University of Wisconsin-Madison team found that microgravity alters the "evolutionary arms race" between bacteria and the ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...