Improved bacterial cellulose could help create tougher, greener materials for things we use every day. As plastic waste ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack cellular processes in ticks to ensure their survival and spread to new ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don’t stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other, building ...

E. coli with engineered cell membranes have enhanced catalysis capabilities which reduce energy use and make production more sustainable.

Study unveals a novel protective mechanism in bacterial cell wall Date: September 26, 2024 Source: Umea University Summary: Researchers have discovered a widespread mechanism in bacteria that ...

Some other types of bacteria can divide many times at once to generate spores — dormant cells that can later become active daughter cells.

Prokaryotes are single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles within the cell, and include all bacteria, while eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have a true ...

Bacterial cells can “remember” brief, temporary changes to their bodies and immediate surroundings, a new study has found. And, although these changes are not encoded in the cell ...

Because the integrity of a bacterial cell's "envelope" or enclosure is key to its survival, the finding could advance the search for new and better antibiotics.