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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Speaker one In our experiment we’re going to investigate the effect of antiseptics on bacterial growth. We’re going to be using agar plates that have been inoculated with bacteria and measure ...

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 ...

The primary concerns relate to hygiene and the risk of skin infections due to bacterial growth on the loofahs. What are loofahs made of? Loofahs, traditionally sourced from the fibrous interior of ...