Scientists at Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research have developed the first mRNA vaccine proven completely effective against deadly bacteria. This groundbreaking ...

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

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

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 ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Bacteria have an unfortunate—and inaccurate—public image as isolated cells twiddling about on microscope slides. The more that scientists learn ...

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, a single cell would exert a force of around 10 femtonewtons.

Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to prove that the bacterial colonization of the intestine plays an important role in controlling peristaltic functions.

To overcome this limitation, we adopted and modified the method of cocultivation of single-captured bacterial cells in gel microdroplets (GMDs) to improve full genomic sequence recovery.

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.