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

Scientists have infected bacteria with a virus aboard the International Space Station to see how they would interact in ...

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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 ...

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

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

Most germs in public toilets spread through hands and air rather than toilet seats, making hygiene far more important than avoiding sitting.

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

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

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 ...

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