In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...
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Viruses may be more powerful in the International Space Station's microgravity environment
The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...
Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, ...
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Controlled experiment allowed viruses to attack bacteria in space—and the results surprised scientists
The viruses devise ploys to break into bacterial defenses. Bacteria, on the other hand, strengthen their defenses so that ...
On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...
The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...
Antibiotics can destroy many types of bacteria, but increasingly, bacterial pathogens are gaining resistance to many commonly used types. As the threat of antibiotic resistance looms large, ...
A research team says their findings could help tackle soaring antibiotic-resistant infections that cause urinary tract ...
Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.
Queensland researchers have discovered that a mutation allows some E. coli bacteria to cause severe disease in people while other bacteria are harmless, a finding that could help to combat antibiotic ...
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