Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

In other words, a bacterial cell reproduces by simply replicating its chromosome and dividing into two daughter cells. The daughter cells that result from this division are genetically identical ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

Studying bacterial interactions with actin is still throwing up new mysteries. These microbes all enjoy at least part of their lives shielded from the onslaught of white blood cells, antibodies, and ...

Bacteriophages, the most abundant life form on Earth, infect bacterial cells and influence the structure of the microbial community. To fend off phage attacks, bacteria have evolved their own ...

These reversible DNA inversions flip the orientation of key gene ... a molecule coating the bacteria that beneficially ...