Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

The technology at the center of the growing "resolution revolution" has again shown its value to scientists at Yale by ...

Cell division in most bacteria is regulated by the tubulin homolog FtsZ as well as ZapA, a FtsZ-associated protein. However, how FtsZ and ZapA function coordinately has remained elusive. Here we ...

Research has revealed how bacteria rely on circadian clocks to control the spread of their multicellular colonies. The ...

Phenotypic heterogeneity, a feature of both bacteria and eukaryotic cells, arises from inherent cell-to-cell variability. In eukaryotes, single-cell RNA sequencing has led to an explosion in ...

A research team at the University of Greifswald's Research Training Group RTG-PRO "Proteases in pathogen and host: importance ...

Biofilms are multicellular networks that can grow almost anywhere. These slime-encased microbial colonies can survive harsh conditions and develop resistance to antimicrobial agents such as ...

Bacteria come in a wide variety of shapes, which are important for their fitness in their respective ecological niches. However, despite intensive research, the factors that determine the shape of ...

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have – in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich – analysed the complex biochemical processes by ...

One of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet is closer than you think - right inside your mouth. Your mouth is a thriving ecosystem of more than 500 different species of bacteria living in ...

A quiet discovery inside a familiar soil microbe is reshaping how scientists think about the future of antibiotics. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have identified a new compound ...

The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii splitting into multiple cells at once, a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria ...