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

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 ...