In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Mobile DNA elements, such as Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, integrative elements (e.g. integrative islands), ...

A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an ...

An electron microscopy images of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that featured on the covers of the 2022 edition of The ...

But lead author Emma Mills, a microbiology and immunology graduate student in Van Tyne’s lab, realized that EDS-HAT was also ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...

This important study analyzes the effect of heat treatment on phage-bacterial interactions and convincingly shows that prior heat exposure alters the bacterial cell envelope, enhancing persistence and ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution.

New research suggests that VREfm have the ability to produce bacteriocin, an antimicrobial that can kill or inhibit other ...