Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive ...

Using third-generation metagenomics, researchers from the Department of Plant Production and Microbiology at the Miguel ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

Unfortunately, Vibrio natriegens doesn't have the sophisticated molecular tools that are available in a commonly used lab ...

Researchers led by Professor Erik van Nimwegen at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, have discovered a new mechanism in ...

Protocol Covers 95 Percent of the Bacteria Used “We have developed a robust bacterial scRNA-seq protocol based on quantitative single-cell RNA sequencing,” says Dr. Christina Homberger from the JMU ...

The body defends itself against pathogens by depriving them of vital iron. However, this strategy doesn't always succeed against Salmonella. Researchers have discovered that these bacteria ...

Viruses and bacteria can be pathogens, but there are also other types of pathogens. Every single living thing, even bacteria themselves, can get infected with a pathogen. The world is full of ...

And it's not just E. coli. Jobin says there are likely other bacteria and genotoxins involved. JOBIN: I don't think colorectal cancer is caused by a single bacteria producing one genotoxin.