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

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

Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, ...

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

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

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

Antibiotics can destroy many types of bacteria, but increasingly, bacterial pathogens are gaining resistance to many commonly used types. As the threat of antibiotic resistance looms large, ...

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

Bacteria can acquire resistance to antibiotics through random mutations in their DNA that provide them with an advantage that helps them survive. Finding genetic mutations, and discovering how they ...

Queensland researchers have discovered that a mutation allows some E. coli bacteria to cause severe disease in people while other bacteria are harmless, a finding that could help to combat antibiotic ...