Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it.

For the first time, scientists have been able to pinpoint single bacteria in a colony and to predict which ones will be ...

Metagenomics, a conventional approach to study genetic material of microorganisms, has been widely used to study the ...

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the ...

The human microbiome plays a critical role in our health, influencing everything from disease development to treatment ...

Bacteria that cause diseases, so-called pathogens, develop various strategies to exploit human cells as hosts to their own advantage. Researchers have now uncovered the attack strategies employed by ...

Like so many organisms on the planet, when cells experience mosh-pit-level crowding, they may just become stressed. Yet unlike most other life forms, cells subject to physical stress from crowding by ...

Bacteria that cause diseases, so-called pathogens, develop various strategies to exploit human cells as hosts to their own ...

Researchers at the University of Liverpool and collaborators have arrived at a new understanding of bacterial photosynthesis.

Because the integrity of a bacterial cell's "envelope" or enclosure is key to its survival, the finding could advance the search for new and better antibiotics. The research, described August 15 in ...

An organism as a tenant in another - in biology, this often works quite well. ETH researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish.