Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to ...

Scientists have infected bacteria with a virus aboard the International Space Station to see how they would interact in ...

The laboratories of the International Space Station (ISS) offer a unique observation ground for the evolution of microbes. A ...

Scientists have utilized artificial intelligence to create a lab-grown virus, Evo-Φ2147, which infects and replicates in E. coli bacteria faster than natural viruses.

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless "microgravity" conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

Natural evolution now has a co-author. That co-author, the emerging ability of AI-driven genome design and genome construction technologies, has the potential to exist alongside natural evolution.' ...

In space, bacteriophages mutate in ways not seen on Earth, making them more effective at killing drug-resistant bacteria.

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

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

The microbes could surrender to the harmless virus, but instead freeze in place, dormant, waiting for their potential predator to go away, according to a recent study in mBio. University of Illinois ...

Viruses, often seen only as disease-causing agents, may hold surprising potential as natural allies in the fight against climate change. A new study published in Nitrogen Cycling reveals that soil ...