Changes in growth rate must be accompanied by changes ... Recent work suggests that, instead of being a single process, the bacterial cell cycle is a set of coordinated but independent events ...

Researchers have demonstrated how bacteria coordinate cell division ... cell division and DNA replication for thousands of cell cycles in several growth conditions. Computational modelling was ...

Project title: “Evolution of Polar Cell Wall Growth Across Bacterial Clades” What’s the idea?

In bacteria, the cell cycle is very tightly controlled by protein-digesting enzymes called proteases that selectively destroy other proteins, called substrates, at appropriate times while the cell is ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford.

For TB bacteria, growth rates can be the same whether they are newly born (and small) or far along in their cell cycle and soon to divide. This is the first reported organism that can do this.

They derived their theory from a simple yet interesting observation: The growth rate of bacteria and their sensitivity to signaling molecules seem to be related. "We discovered that the slower a ...

from bacteria to humans, possess a circadian clock—a biological mechanism that synchronizes activities such as rest or growth to daily changes in a 24-hour day. Although the circadian clock is ...