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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tis the season for cooler temps, shorter days and cozy nights by the fire. Unfortunately, this time of year also marks the ...