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

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

Space-evolved viruses show enhanced killing power against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, offering new pathways for phage ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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