Scientists create powerful metallic antibiotics using robotic chemistry, capable of eliminating lethal bacteria without ...

Weightlessness has the potential to enhance a regular virus and increase its ability to kill stubborn bacteria. In an ...

Scientists have infected bacteria with a virus aboard the International Space Station to see how they would interact in ...

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

Researchers have discovered viruses transported to the International Space Station evolve differently than on Earth in a ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at the University of Basel created a new test that tracks individual bacteria ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.

Bacteria have developed many strategies to defend themselves from phages — the viruses that infect them. The Zorya defence system uses a previously undescribed antiviral strategy. An ...

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

An artistic depiction of a jumbo phage infecting a bacterium, with the EPI vesicle (circle) shown protecting the phage DNA material, which is preparing to form a nucleus by synthesizing RNA (magenta) ...