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

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

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

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

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

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

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

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

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

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

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 ...