The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...
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 ...
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Scientists found viruses behave strangely in space and it might save lives
When scientists sent bacteria and their viral predators, bacteriophages, to the International Space Station (ISS), they ...
Viruses constantly emerge and evolve, with some posing significant threats to human and animal health, while others remain confined to specific species. A recently identified example of the latter is ...
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Viruses may be more powerful in the International Space Station's microgravity environment
"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand" ...
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Viruses that evolved on the space station and were sent back to Earth were more effective at killing bacteria
Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...
Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process. Bacteria, in turn, can develop defenses against these viruses. Bacteriophages or ...
A shower head is a perforated nozzle that distributes water over solid angle a focal point of use, generally overhead the bather. Image by DO'Neil (CC BY-SA 3.0) A shower head is a perforated nozzle ...
By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...
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