This week in science: how eating meat could be associated with a longer life; a switch for fat cell production; how space ...

Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

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

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

While you probably aren’t going to get sick from just being outside in all this microbe rain, pathogenic organisms are ...

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

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

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

Human health risks from direct consumption of toxic nanoplastics are already scary, but researchers have confirmed that nanoplastics in water give rise to an additional threat: They strengthen ...

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

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