Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive role in both disease and healing. For example, in urinary tract infections ...

Microscopy is an art and a science, revealing the alien beauty of the hidden world all around us. The 2022 winners include a stack of moth eggs, a flowery sea of colon cells, and bacteria coating ...

By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaA recent study published in Nature Microbiology examined the motility behavior of copiotrophic ...

Light microscope images of E. coli cells in transmitted ... DNA condensation also occurs after bacteria have been treated with aminoglycoside antibiotics.

The tiny world of microorganisms is full of microbes competing in a major life or death battle. The tiny lifeforms compete for turf, gobble up some pollutants, spew chemicals at their foes, and will ...

Scanning electron microscopy, or SEM ... what give the starter its distinctive sour smell and taste. In this image, bacteria have pill-like shapes that are approximately 2 micrometers in size.

To kill drug-resistant bacteria, “last-resort” antibiotics borrow a tactic from Medusa’s playbook: petrification. New high-resolution microscope images show that a class of antibiotics ...

Researchers have discovered a bacterium visible to the naked eye, challenging prevailing notions about the size of bacteria, most of which only can be seen when using a microscope. The ...