Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

For example, a bacterium traveling through the human gut can experience pHs ranging from highly acidic (pH 2-3) to basic (pH 8-9) in just a few hours. In hypersaline ponds, bacteria in microbial ...

It’s one of the biggest arguments for basic research.-Moh El-Naggar, University of Southern California I said, “I heard that you're doing all these interesting projects with bacteria and electrons. I ...

Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals, which function as tiny compasses that allow the microbes to navigate using Earth's geomagnetic field. Earth's iron cycle is a very ...

Glass was part of the team that created the first bacterial cell with a chemically synthesized genome ... understand the basics of life and to understand how drugs might affect basic cell biology. For ...