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

The bacteria use a natural molecule called naphthoquinone. This acts like a tiny shuttle for electrons inside the cell.

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS / Bill Tompkins/Getty Images ... provides us with energy—may have originated from ancient bacteria cells that entered another ancient prokaryote.

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

Nevertheless, it was long thought that they existed outside of cells for the most part. "In the meantime, it's clear that the picture is more complex and the bacteria target the cells they ...

John Glass, PhD is a synthetic biologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Glass was part of the team that created the first bacterial cell with a chemically synthesized genome. View Full Profile.

travels among these networked cells. The images from Muñoz-Marín’s lab marked the first time these structures have been seen in the cyanobacteria responsible for so much of the Earth’s photosynthesis.