Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

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

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

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, ...

Long before humans became interested in killing bacteria, viruses were on the job. Viruses that attack bacteria, termed “phages” (short for bacteriophage), were first identified by their ability to ...