{"id":3923536,"date":"2026-01-13T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/phages-and-bacteria-accumulate-distinctive-mutations-aboard-the-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:03:50","slug":"phages-and-bacteria-accumulate-distinctive-mutations-aboard-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/phages-and-bacteria-accumulate-distinctive-mutations-aboard-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Phages and bacteria accumulate distinctive mutations aboard the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless &#8220;microgravity&#8221; conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions differed from those observed on Earth. Phil Huss of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues present the findings in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-phages-bacteria-accumulate-distinctive-mutations.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless &#8220;microgravity&#8221; conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions differed from those observed on Earth. Phil Huss of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues present the findings in the open-access journal PLOS Biology. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}