Virginia Tech researchers have learned how bacteria manipulate molecules to infect the host organism. Daniel Capelluto and ...

In contrast, as Süel’s team has found, the potassium signals released from biofilms can travel with constant strength for more than 1,000 times the width of a typical bacterial cell—and even ...

A typical bacterial cell is just a few micrometers in length and has a mass in the region of 10-15 kilograms. Under the force of gravity, ...

Figure 1: Cellular structures of a typical bacterium, planctomycetes and eukaryotes. Here, we revisit planctomycetal cell biology using both existing 25,26 and new genetic tools, together with ...

While a typical bacterial cell has just one loop of DNA, Thiomargarita magnifica has hundreds of thousands of them, each tucked inside its own pepin. Even more remarkably, each pepin contains ...

Like typical stem cells, these cells were pluripotent, meaning they could then become other cell types, for instance muscle cells. This enabled the bacteria to spread to tissues in the body.

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

The evolution of monoderm and diderm cell envelopes, and thus of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, is a long-standing question. In this Opinion article, Tocheva, Ortega and Jensen propose ...

Interestingly, although large in number, bacteria are much smaller than human cells, and they actually make up only 200 grams of total body mass, according to Prof. Milo.