Microscopy is an art and a science, revealing the alien beauty of the hidden world all around us. The 2022 winners include a stack of moth eggs, a flowery sea of colon cells, and bacteria coating ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive role in both disease and healing. For example, in urinary tract infections ...

Light microscope images of E. coli cells in transmitted ... DNA condensation also occurs after bacteria have been treated with aminoglycoside antibiotics.

Scanning electron microscopy, or SEM ... what give the starter its distinctive sour smell and taste. In this image, bacteria have pill-like shapes that are approximately 2 micrometers in size.

To kill drug-resistant bacteria, “last-resort” antibiotics borrow a tactic from Medusa’s playbook: petrification. New high-resolution microscope images show that a class of antibiotics ...

But microscopy studies revealed that the strands were actually bacteria so large that they can be seen without the help of a microscope. Specifically, the newly discovered bacteria, which the ...