A herbal mouthwash selectively killed off bad bacteria in the mouth while preserving the good strains, according to a new ...

The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly ordered. Textbook images like the one below have shaped our thinking. Robert Turner and his colleagues ...

Genetically similar bacteria can differ in shape and behavior, even in lab settings. A recent study shows that this ...

Prokaryotic bacteria cell Bacteria are single-celled organisms that thrive in a wide variety of environments, from soil and water to the human gut to extreme habitats like hot springs. 19 Bacteria ...

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they can contain pathogens and are highly resistant to treatment. Chemists ...

ASU professor Glen D’Souza joined The Show to speak more about what he’s discovered about these bacteria: Not only will ...

Bacterial structural biology is a scientific discipline that concerns the structure of bacterial macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids. Such studies are used to understand the ...

Depending on the characteristic being studied, bacterial species may be broken down into broad groups, but taken together this information can narrow the possible identities greatly. One such useful ...

However, in bacterial single-cell DNA amplification, ... (CSR) to evolve the phi29 DNA polymerase, they modified its structure to enhance its activity, specificity, and stability.

For the first time, a scientific study has succeeded in using live microbes to produce medicine — by digesting and fermenting ...

Listeria gets its host to build it an actin tail. Some intracellular bacteria use the host cell’s actin supplies to build their own transport system. The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes ...