A joint research team from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Institute of ...

have now presented another of these rare bacterial predators: the filamentous marine bacterium Aureispira. Among the ...

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

Their results revealed that it has some morphological differences from other cable bacteria, as well as genetic similarities to both genera. Among the most important findings were the pronounced ...

is a single bacterial cell. “Realizing that a filamentous bacteria of that size is actually just a single bacterium was an aha moment,” says Jean-Marie Volland, a marine biologist at the ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

In these images provided by OSU, (left): a filament of the electricity-conductive bacteria; and (right) a rug of biomass. Courtesy of Oregon State University Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis draws its ...