Understanding and controlling how bacteria move through obstacle-filled environments has long been a challenge. A new model ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

It’s one of the biggest arguments for basic research.-Moh El-Naggar, University of Southern California I said, “I heard that you're doing all these interesting projects with bacteria and electrons. I ...

For example, a bacterium traveling through the human gut can experience pHs ranging from highly acidic (pH 2-3) to basic (pH 8-9) in just a few hours. In hypersaline ponds, bacteria in microbial ...

Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals, which function as tiny compasses that allow the microbes to navigate using Earth's geomagnetic field. Earth's iron cycle is a very ...