Bacteria-infecting viruses being studied aboard the International Space Station (ISS) appeared to behave differently compared to their terrestrial counterparts, scientists found in a new study. These ...

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Research in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs such as E. coli, say scientists. An experiment partially conducted on board the International Space Station (ISS) showed that viruses and ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International Space Station to evaluate how mutations induced by microgravity may impact ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic bacteriophages that could help with future clinical development of phage ...

F. William Studier of Brookhaven National Laboratory has won the second annual Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for his development of an efficient, scalable method of producing RNA ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers demonstrated biological bacteriophage containment and synthetic engineering. Study: Synthetic ...