Transposable elements contribute to evolution, but their own diversification remains incompletely understood. Here, insect ...

In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

Chinese researchers have developed an infrared contact lens that makes night vision possible. Nanoparticles make the previously invisible light range visible to the human eye.

These fundamental findings offer a novel mechanism by which rubrerythrin tubules encapsulate encapsulin to prevent oxidative stress in Pyrococcus furiosus. However, there are a few reasonable concerns ...

The second proposal is that animals that sense electric charges (such as were discussed in last month’s Inner Nature article) ...

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

Not all individuals in a population of bacteria are identical. Some may be on the verge of cell division, others are differentiating, others are in the process of adapting to changing environmental ...

We analyzed high resolution Panteoa bacterial AFM images to quantify morphological ... models we captures several morphological properties such as total cell count, cell orientation, cell eccentricity ...

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden published a study “Breaking barriers: pCF10 type 4 secretion system relies on a self-regulating muramidase to modulate the cell wall” in mBIO that ...

But scientists don’t understand a fundamental process within bacteria cells: how they organize themselves before division. When cells divide the cell splits into two “daughter cells” with the same ...