But this evolutionary “arms race” looks a little different when playing out in microgravity.

Space-based experiments show that microgravity-induced mutations in bacteriophages may improve their ability to target ...

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

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless "microgravity" conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

The Golden Gate Assembly platform engineers bacteriophages synthetically using sequence data rather than bacteriophage isolates.

Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious bacterial diseases for over a century. As ...

In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d evolved to withstand. By Patience Asanga / Knowable Magazine Published Sep ...

The viruses that kill bacteria may be our best bet against antibiotic resistance — if we can understand how they win. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Peering through his microscope in 1910, Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle noticed some "clear spots" in his bacterial cultures, an anomaly that turned out to be viruses preying on the ...

Clinicians have used phages to treat bacterial infections since the early 20 th century. Although the advent and mass production of antibiotics caused a decline in phage therapy, the recent rise in ...