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

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

Using ribosome engineering (RE), researchers from Shinshu University introduced mutations affecting the protein synthesis mechanism of probiotic Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG). These mutant ...

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

"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand" ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

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

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

Carlsberg has developed a method using digital PCR to identify specific nucleotide mutations in mutated genes. The process involves random mutagenesis, dividing organisms into sub-pools, PCR ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

In a major advance, researchers have successfully corrected genetic mutations in neurons with a single injection into the brains of a mouse model. This technique did not completely reverse the disease ...