Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and the National University Health System (NUHS), together with an international team ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

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

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, ...

Bacteria can acquire resistance to antibiotics through random mutations in their DNA that provide them with an advantage that helps them survive. Finding genetic mutations, and discovering how they ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

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

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

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 ...

Using ribosome engineering (RE), researchers from Shinshu University introduced mutations affecting the protein synthesis ...

Duke-NUS and NUHS scientists uncover a complex web of genetic, age-related and microbial factors that increase the risk of stomach cancer. Age-related blood cell mutations may trigger early changes in ...