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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Scientists built a model that allows them to diminish phage communities from a mouse gut microbiome -- and then bring them back -- without affecting the bacteria. On a test run of their model, ...

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America. When we ...

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

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...