Bacteria are also able to communicate with each other through chemical signals, a behavior known as quorum signaling (QS). These chemical signals spread through a biofilm that colonies of bacteria ...
Bacteria are traditionally imagined as single-cell organisms, spread out sparsely over surfaces or suspended in liquids, but in many environments the true bacterial mode of growth is in sticky ...
Similar in function to ballast tanks in submarines or fish bladders, many water-based bacteria use gas vesicles to regulate their floatability. In a publication in Cell, scientists from the ...
A new study challenges a decades-old explanation for how bacteria change direction, revealing that the process may be driven ...
Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often ...
A Franco-British team of scientists has explored two human proteins recently identified as immune enzymes. Structural studies ...