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

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

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

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

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

Scientists used AI to design a completely new virus known as Evo-Φ2147. It is designed to infect and replicate inside ...

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

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 “microgravity” conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

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Plastic pollution does more than litter landscapes and oceans. According to a new perspective article published in Biocontaminant, viruses living on plastic surfaces may play an underrecognized role ...