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

A petri dish full of dead bacteria isn’t usually cause for celebration. But for Stanford’s Brian Hie it was a game-changer in his efforts to create synthetic life. The perpetrator was a type of virus ...

Scientists generally agree that eukaryotes, the domain of life whose cells contain nuclei and that includes almost all multicellular organisms, originated from a process involving the symbiotic union ...

Penn State scientists uncovered an ancient bacterial defense where dormant viral DNA helps bacteria fight new viral threats. The enzyme PinQ flips bacterial genes to create protective proteins that ...

Silver has been used to kill bacteria for centuries, but scientists at UCLA have discovered a way to make it work much more effectively. By letting viruses build tiny silver particles, researchers ...