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

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

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

University of Wisconsin-Madison team found that microgravity alters the "evolutionary arms race" between bacteria and the ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.