Respiratory infections are among the leading causes of illness and death in the elderly, driven by immune aging, chronic ...

Efficient utilisation of abundant renewable sugars and aromatic chemicals by natural or recombinant microorganisms is a key prerequisite for the economic viability of biotechnological valorisation of ...

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

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

A new study has uncovered dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions in the microgravity environment of the International Space ...

AMES, Iowa – Researchers at Iowa State University have identified a genetic process by which some Escherichia coli bacteria adapt to the human kidney, a step that could lead to new treatments to stop ...

If you still remember that “Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti,” you’ll likely also recall the corresponding taxonomic ranks of biology: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, ...

Chronic lung infections pose a disproportionate threat to older adults, yet the biological mechanisms behind age-specific ...

The stringent response is a pivotal survival strategy employed by bacteria to swiftly adapt to environmental stress. Central to this mechanism is the accumulation of alarmone nucleotides, primarily ...

Tsukuba, Japan—The team proposed a new approach to reveal ecological niches (positions within ecosystems) and evolutionary relationships in nature through large-scale growth analysis of bacteria in ...