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

A new study has uncovered dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions in the microgravity environment of the International Space ...

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 ...

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

In a new study, we and an international team scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

AI can now create genome viruses in laboratories and redesign toxins to evade controls, raising biosafety alert and rise of ...

Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye. They’re everywhere. And both can make us sick, even kill us. That last ...

Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

The CDC will soon recommend that some people take a "morning-after" antibiotic to lower their risk of STIs. But someday, it's possible that bacteria-killing viruses could do this without driving ...

Viruses may get a bad rap, but some of them can be helpful to fight off bacterial infections. ETH Zurich scientists have demonstrated a new way to use them to diagnose which bacteria is causing a UTI, ...