Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of ...

The common cold is typically caused by viruses, most often rhinoviruses, which infect the upper respiratory tract (nose and throat). 1 Zinc has been reported to block the replication of rhinovirus. By ...

In a new study, we and an international team of scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...