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

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

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China's Tiangong space station. The new microbe strain, officially named Niallia tiangongensis, was ...

An organism as a tenant in another - in biology, this often works quite well. ETH researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish. Endosymbiosis is a ...

Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to new environments they encounter? Traditionally, scientists have believed that cells ...

For the research, scientists compared samples incubated on Earth and on the International Space Station.

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless “microgravity” conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

Viruses infected bacteria differently on the ISS than on Earth Microgravity altered infection speed, growth, and mutations ...

Engineered bacterial cells (purple) activate several parts of the immune system to attack tumor cells (gray). Credit must be given to the creator. Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to live.