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

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

Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

Researchers have discovered a surprising survival strategy that has the potential to transform biotechnology and energy ...

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

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America.

Bacterial infections are often thought to be caused by individual, free floating cells; in reality, bacteria form complex communities, supported by an external 3D matrix that provides structural ...

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

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

But how this information is transferred throughout bacterial populations was unclear. Polard and his team began their investigations by engineering a strain of S. pneumoniae that emits fluorescent ...