Bacterial roundabouts determine cell shape: Scientists decipher important mechanisms of bacterial cell wall synthesis. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

Staphylococcus aureus is an aggressive pathogen and a model organism to study cell division in sequential orthogonal planes in spherical bacteria. However, the small size of staphylococcal cells ...

Bacterial electricity: Membrane potential influences antibiotic tolerance Date: January 19, 2023 Source: University of Cologne Summary: The electrical potential across the bacterial cell envelope ...

This study reveals how probiotic bacteria directly influence brain cell function, highlighting gut-brain communication and potential therapeutic applications.

Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

Bacterial cell division, a process wherein a single cell divides to form two identical daughter cells, represents one of the ...

Long dismissed as featureless, disorganized sacks, bacteria are now revealing a multitude of elegant internal structures. Ewen Callaway investigates a new field in cell biology.

As the cells adapted to the new conditions and increased their growth rate, they became smaller and spherical. Each of the experimental lineages adapted in diverse ways.

A report on the experiments was published March 12 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe.The findings help scientists better understand how bacterial cells that cause serious diseases, including ...

Bacteria grow in thick films, with different types of microbes clustered in patches around individual cells on the tongue’s surface, researchers report online March 24 in Cell Reports.

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders—by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and ...