Notably, regulation of cell shape, cell polarization and asymmetric ... Long history as a bacterial model organism. Large collection of genetic tools, mutant strains and methods.

Analyzing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique from Würzburg can do this much more ...

"We haven't had a robust understanding of how properties of the environment and cell motility influence bacterial dispersion." Mattingly decided to focus his model on 'surface states' that ...

The real-time, single-cell imaging revealed that the bacteria start dispersing from the edges ... Overall, Bridges said the findings suggest a model in which certain areas of biofilms become more ...

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

In a study published in Molecular Cell, scientists at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) have uncovered new details about the ongoing warfare between viruses and bacteria, related to an ...

Time-lapse analyses of millions of antibiotic-stressed Escherichia coli characterize the diverse single-cell dynamics of persister cells that depend on antibiotics, culture conditions, and ...

Virginia Tech's Bryan Hsu and graduate student Hollyn Franklin built a model that allows them to diminish phage communities from a mouse gut microbiome — and then bring them back — without affecting ...

The interaction between growth and the active migration of cells plays a crucial role in the spatial mixing of growing cell colonies. This connection will lay the groundwork for new approaches to ...