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So is it time to add viruses to one's microbiome-feeding regimen of probiotics and prebiotics, synbiotics (which combine the ...

Since the discovery of penicillin nearly a century ago, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a stealthy, pervasive enemy ...

Researchers say they have discovered bacteria that breathe electricity instead of oxygen, spurring new ideas for renewable ...

What if the breakthrough in battery recycling wasn’t high-tech—but prehistoric? As the world braces for a flood of ...

Scientists have discovered yet another never-before-seen strand of bacteria growing on a space station. This time it was ...

Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that you’d have ... travels among these networked cells. The images from Muñoz-Marín’s lab marked the first time these structures have been seen in ...

To understand bacterial cell division, let us use the children’s game LEGO as a simplified analogy. Picture a square cell that is six inches on each side, with walls made of LEGO tiles.

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.

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

Because the integrity of a bacterial cell's "envelope" or enclosure is key ... Goley cautioned that "it will take some time to develop a complete picture about how they function across gram ...