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

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The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

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

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...