image: Bacteria with organelles called carboxysomes stained in cyan. Magenta indicates positioning systems organizing the cell. view more Credit: Vecchiarelli lab, University of Michigan ...

Vecchiarelli’s graduate student, Lisa T. Pulianmackal, learned how to cultivate this bacterial species in the lab and fluorescently label five cargos, allowing the researchers to follow their movement ...

New molecular label could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests Date: May 5, 2025 ... It could also be used to study in more detail how the bacterial cell wall is assembled, ...

Their approach uses a 500–1,000-nanometre-wide needle to puncture host cells and then deliver bacterial cells one at ... containing bacteria — which had been labelled with a glowing protein ...

Polard and his team began their investigations by engineering a strain of S. pneumoniae that emits fluorescent signals when a cell becomes competent, allowing the researchers to track how the strategy ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

Researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the germ's shape. Because the integrity of a bacterial cell's ...