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

Scientists have discovered that a molecule known for defending animal immune systems called itaconate also plays a powerful ...

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the ...

A multinational research team, including Professor David W Graham from Durham University's Biosciences Department, have ...

Edited by Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; received November 27, 2024; accepted February 21, 2025 ...

Carbon source-dependent control of bacterial growth is fundamental to bacterial physiology and survival. However, pinpointing the metabolic steps important for cell growth is challenging due to the ...

Herbs can keep in the fridge for one to two weeks. They’ll last longest when they have “enough moisture to keep them fresh ...

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

Microbial growth rate was calculated using change in bacterial cell counts over time. Cell numbers were counted before and after incubation using a flow cytometer (BD FACS Aria). The samples were ...

The Lazy Berkshire Gardener brought this clump of dahlia bulbs out of the basement, and within 24 hours the white shoots of new growth have started to turn ... to develop into full photosynthesizing ...

Biological Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Division of Pharmacy and ...

The cable bacteria viewed at 3-micron magnification – credit, OSU press, released There’s something make-believe, almost Pokémon-like in a new species of bacteria found living on a mud flat ...