Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

Jon Chase: Bacteria are a type of microorganism, each made up of just one cell. Some bacteria are harmful and cause disease, and some are useful, like the one hundred trillion bacterial cells that ...

Bacteria can be ruthless. A new study has shown that when their survival is threatened because of food scarcity, they will ...

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Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...

The work, which tested APOL3 on the membranes of Salmonella and other microbes, has been reported in Science. When individual cells mount their own defense against an infection it's called ...

Multiple ParA/MinD ATPases coordinate the positioning of disparate cargos in a bacterial cell. Nature Communications , 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39019-x Cite This Page : ...

How bacteria control their size Date: January 5, 2015 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: New work shows that bacteria (and probably other cells as well) don't double in mass ...

Figure 1: Cellular structures of a typical bacterium, planctomycetes and eukaryotes. Here, we revisit planctomycetal cell biology using both existing 25,26 and new genetic tools, together with ...

Long dismissed as featureless, disorganized sacks, bacteria are now revealing a multitude of elegant internal structures. Ewen Callaway investigates a new field in cell biology. Nearly a decade ...

Bacteria grow in thick films, with different types of microbes clustered in patches around individual cells on the tongue’s surface, researchers report online March 24 in Cell Reports.

In this simplified diagram of gram staining, bacterial cells are first treated with a purple dye called crystal violet. The dye gets into the cells’ peptidoglycan layer (gray), tinting it purple.