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

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

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way ...

Bacteria and viruses are locked in a slow motion battle aboard the ISS that looks nothing like life on the ground.

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

Viruses appear to be getting stronger in space – and scientists don’t know why - Space ‘fundamentally changes’ how viruses and bacteria interact, researchers say ...

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

Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious bacterial diseases for over a century. As ...

Biliary tract infection (BTI) is a disease with high morbidity and mortality, often associated with structural abnormalities such as common bile duct stones and malignant tumors. Although Pseudomonas ...

Oral administration of a cocktail of three viruses, all of which specifically kill cholera bacteria, prevents infection and cholera-like symptoms in animal model experiments, report scientists from ...