In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers have developed an infrared contact lens that makes night vision possible. Nanoparticles make the previously invisible light range visible to the human eye.

The second proposal is that animals that sense electric charges (such as were discussed in last month’s Inner Nature article) ...

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

We were surprised because these tubes are clearly not the result of a geological process,” explained Professor Cees Passchier ...

For a long time, scientists have been speculating about making biopolymers that would mirror compounds in nature but in the opposite orientation ... living cell from them. Mirror bacteria ...

We analyzed high resolution Panteoa bacterial AFM images to quantify morphological ... models we captures several morphological properties such as total cell count, cell orientation, cell eccentricity ...

Then she dunked them in the ice water, sampled bacteria from each chilled tube and watched for colonies to grow from live cells. Despite growing at warm temperatures, the cells that experienced short, ...

Study unveals a novel protective mechanism in bacterial cell wall Date: September 26, 2024 Source: Umea University Summary: Researchers have discovered a widespread mechanism in bacteria that ...

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden published a study “Breaking barriers: pCF10 type 4 secretion system relies on a self-regulating muramidase to modulate the cell wall” in mBIO that ...