In short, while bacteria may not have “sex lives” in the way humans do, their frequent DNA exchanges play a crucial role in ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many microbes — like plants and animals — are organized into species, he upended a ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms.

Due to their similarities to bacteria, mitochondria can actually ... Remember that at that time, scientists could examine cells under the microscope, lyse them, and study the chemistry of cellular ...

Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope. No prizes for guessing the first thing you'll need: a microscope. But don't worry if you don't have one of your own. Ask your school ...

A 3D rendering captured with a confocal microscope shows the development of serpentine "cables" as non-motile E. coli bacterial cells proliferate in a polymeric solution. Scale bars are included.

“Many of these bacterial systems have been shown to be the evolutionary ... When the scientists isolated the higher density band and viewed it under a transmission electron microscope, they were ...

The empty spaces looked like plaques created by bacteria-killing viruses, so Hoiczyk’s team concluded there must be a viral invader in their cultures. When the researchers scraped the cleared areas ...

Long ago, bacteria entered other cells and stayed ... Giger then observed what happened to the enforced cohabitation under the microscope. After the injection of the E. coli bacteria, both ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...