To see how microgravity changes certain microbes, researchers sent bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages to the ...

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 ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to create a new virus to attack a colony of the deadly E.coli bacteria. The ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low orbit of Earth. And research out today finds that bacteriophages—the viruses ...

The International Space Station (ISS) hovers 250 miles above us, orbiting Earth at 17,500 miles per hour. So far, it has welcomed nearly 300 astronauts. And now, this remote outpost also receives ...

Bacteria often go dormant to avoid being wiped out by antibiotics or other threats, which makes treatment difficult. Now scientists have discovered a virus that can attack these sleeping bugs, ...

Prof. Rotem Sorek and the Phages, viruses that attack bacteria. Phages, viruses that attack bacteria, have a head and a tail. The head contains the phage’s genetic material and the tail is used to ...

Jumbo phages belong to a group of viruses that attack bacteria. They inject their DNA and then reproduce by taking over the cell’s DNA-copying machinery. Eventually, a phage makes so many copies of ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana State University scientists contributed research about how bacteria protects themselves against viral infection to the journal Nature. MSU doctoral student Nate Burman was the ...

Bacteria have an array of strategies to counter viral invasion, but how they first spot a stranger in their midst has long been a mystery. There's no organism on earth that lives free of threat -- ...

Viruses, like movie villains, operate in one of two ways: chill or kill. They can lie low, quietly infiltrating the body’s defenses, or go on the attack, making many copies of themselves that explode ...