How do bacteria adapt when resources run low? ISTA researchers have found that, under starvation stress, E. coli can use ...

One of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet is closer than you think—right inside your mouth. Your mouth is a thriving ecosystem of more than 500 different species of bacteria living in distinct, ...

Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have identified a mechanism in the gut bacterium ...

How do bacteria adapt when resources run low? ISTA researchers have found that, under starvation stress, E. coli can use bacteriophages and CRISPR-Cas ...

How do bacteria adapt when resources run low? ISTA researchers have found that, under starvation stress, E. coli can use bacteriophages and CRISPR-Cas immunity to transfer and incorporate DNA, ...

Newswise — Bacteria reproduce by dividing into two: they form a wall, or septum, between the two future cells while remodelling the old cell walls so the so-called "daughter" cells can separate ...

Genomic analysis of Shewanella baltica strains from Baltic Sea sediments reveals that recombination-driven, or sexual, ...

Researchers have discovered that virus-like nanoparticles can promote the multicellular organization and reproduction of host bacteria. These particles, which are evolutionarily related to phages ...

Ostracod ovarium with endosymbiotic bacteria (Cardinium) in magenta. Ostracods, sometimes called seed shrimp, are nearly microscopic, aquatic organisms, inhabiting all types of marine and freshwater ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary mechanism of cell division in Corynebacterium matruchotii, one of the most common bacteria living in dental plaque. The filamentous bacterium doesn't just ...