A team of researchers have discovered a bacteria that has broken the theoretical limits of how big bacteria can grow. The bacteria was found swimming in the French Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, ...

Biologists have discovered the largest bacterium ever, and you can see it with the naked eye. Researchers found the bacterium living in Caribbean mangroves. A single cell of its thread-like body, if ...

A newly discovered bacterium is changing the way scientists understand bacterial size and complexity. Published in thejournal Science, the study reveals a bacterium that grows up to nearly one ...

On sunken leaves in the waters of a Caribbean mangrove swamp, researchers discovered a bacterium that challenges the prevailing view of bacterial cell size; counter to the notion that microbes are ...

Scientists have traditionally studied bacteria in large numbers, not individually. Working with tens of millions of cells in a culture flask, they tracked their growth by looking at how much the cells ...

Researchers have found that antibiotic-resistant bacteria are fatter and shorter than their antibiotic-sensitive parental strains, and that these morphological changes correlate with changes in the ...