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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

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

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

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

"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand" ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

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