High-throughput DNA sequencing has proven invaluable for investigating diverse environmental and host-associated microbial communities. In this Review, we discuss emerging strategies for microbial ...

The non-descript, pill-shaped cell is why we understand fundamental life processes (think DNA replication and transcription).

Dangerous limitations of one strain as a sole model The work underscores the dangers of using one strain as a sole model, according to the scientists who add that it also confirms that bacterial ...

Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms ...

The researchers built a simple model examining the interactions of nonmotile, rod-shaped bacterial cells within a self-produced EPS to determine how a nonequilibrium bacterial colony undergoes ...

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Scientists have constructed a high-resolution 3D model that shows what happens when a bacterial motor switches directions.

Molecular Devices, LLC., launched the QPix® FLEX™ Microbial Colony Picking System. Building on the company’s 20-year legacy developing colony pickers, the QPix FLEX system automates and streamlines ...

Daniel Capelluto and his research team have discovered the mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the causative agent of dysentery, manipulates molecular activity to assure ...

With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy – using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections – fell into oblivion.