They have shown, for the first time, that good bacteria seem to halve the risk of young children being admitted to hospital ...

Hold out your hands, palms up, and move them so they are on top of each other. With a little experimentation—and perhaps a ...

The bacteria use a natural molecule called naphthoquinone. This acts like a tiny shuttle for electrons inside the cell.

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS / Bill Tompkins/Getty Images ... provides us with energy—may have originated from ancient bacteria cells that entered another ancient prokaryote.

The identification, sorting and export of single bacterial cells rather than ... ability to detect even hidden properties of cells just from cell images, and thus for cell identification," said ...

EPFL researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America.

Nevertheless, it was long thought that they existed outside of cells for the most part. "In the meantime, it's clear that the picture is more complex and the bacteria target the cells they ...

John Glass, PhD is a synthetic biologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Glass was part of the team that created the first bacterial cell with a chemically synthesized genome. View Full Profile.

Seawater is full of bacteria, hundreds of thousands live ... microscopic methods to visualise and count dividing cells in thousands of images," explains Jan Brüwer, who conducted the study ...