Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

Working in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, scientists at the University of ...

This image highlights the various challenges in maintaining cell culture integrity, including contamination from bacteria, viruses, mycoplasmas, and chemicals. It also emphasizes the importance of ...

The phylogenetically classification and deposition of the CPR bacterium to a public culture ... cell and genome size and lack of biosynthetic pathways for their growth. Although some CPR bacteria ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Glass was part of the team that created the first bacterial cell with a chemically synthesized genome ... were created by eliminating genes not required for growth in laboratory culture, they are ...

In normal cell cultures, antibiotics may be added to the culture medium to prevent the incidence of bacterial contaminants. This has the major drawback of being useless against antibiotic ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Bacteria had grown out in a yellowish smear coating the plates, but then holes appeared in the microbial film. The empty spaces looked like ...

and the mirror bacteria themselves could even be considered an invasive species. While there would not be "many organic molecules inside a human body for a mirror cell to feed on," because their ...

Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

The phylogenetic classification and deposition of the CPR bacterium to a public culture ... cell and genome size and lack of biosynthetic pathways for their growth. Although some CPR bacteria ...