Project title: “Evolution of Polar Cell Wall Growth Across Bacterial Clades” What’s the idea?

Other bacteria can exist in a pre-resistant state. To survive, slow bacterial growth allows mutations to arise that help the bugs tolerate the drug, or shifting phenotypes help them persist in its ...

In the early 2000s a few bacteria isolated from marine sediments up to 35 million years old were coaxed to grow in culture, but the experiment was not designed to gauge their growth. A 2017 study ...

Researchers have found a bacteriocin that can help inhibit the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a growing global problem. Part of the ...

In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford.

The bacteria in the gut offer information about the number of potentially harmful Candida fungus present. Surprisingly, lactic acid bacteria are among them, which are renowned for their potential ...

Small milk fat globules promoted the growth of Bacillus subtilis, a commensal bacterium, while large milk fat globules ...