Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century. In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and physicist turned ...

There’s a secret, extra member of Crew-11 traveling to the International Space Station right now: disease-causing bacteria. Or, at least, such bacteria will be growing aboard the orbiting laboratory ...

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, but a ...

We have become much more aware of all of the surfaces we touch daily and what kinds of germs can be on them. The Microbiology Lab at the Medical College of Georgia conducted an experiment with ...

In an effort to learn more about astronaut health and the effects of space on the human body, NASA is conducting a new experiment aboard the International Space Station to speed up the detection of ...

There has been much theoretical debate about whether and how organisms can evolve to become better at evolving, but now a team of researchers has made it happen in a lab – and documented almost every ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Qi Zheng, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do ...