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

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

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

Scientists found that the space station phages gradually accumulated specific mutations that boosted their infectivity, or ...

The viruses devise ploys to break into bacterial defenses. Bacteria, on the other hand, strengthen their defenses so that ...

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

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

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

Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye. They’re everywhere. And both can make us sick, even kill us. That last ...

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

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America. When we ...