New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

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A few feet from McFarlane, undergraduate James Lu painstakingly prepares slides for Gross, who studies Shewanella bacteria cells one at a time as they pass their electrons onto electrodes.

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 ...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...

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Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, may use their entire bodies as miniature lenses that can "see" light and move toward it.

A transparent coating that makes surfaces more water-repellent causes bacteria to slide off a toilet bowl, offering a practical way to self-sanitize shared surfaces in the interest of public health.

For the first time, scientists in Australia have observed bacteria shedding their protective shells and changing shape to escape detection by antibiotics.

Viruses vastly outnumber bacteria (SN: 1/11/14, p.18) and could skew the microbe-to-human cell ratio upwards, says Julie Segre, a geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in ...