Under laboratory conditions, many common bacteria reproduce and divide into symmetrical halves. In the real world with limited resources, however, conditions aren't always ideal for this kind of ...

Cell division is a crucial process for life; in order to create and maintain multicellular organisms, cells have to make more cells by dividing. Unicellular colonies of bacteria survive by dividing ...

Some bacteria can release toxins that provoke their neighbors into attacking each other, a tactic that could be exploited to fight infections. Bacteria often engage in 'warfare' by releasing toxins or ...

Some bacteria can release toxins that provoke their neighbors into attacking each other, a tactic that could be exploited to fight infections. Some bacteria can release toxins that provoke their ...

Engineers at EPFL have found a way to insert carbon nanotubes into photosynthetic bacteria, which greatly improves their electrical output. They even pass these nanotubes down to their offspring when ...

The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) departed long ago, taking its evolutionary secrets to the grave or—more likely—the environs of a deep sea vent. Yet clues remain, scattered among the genomes ...

When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful ...

For scientists working with bacteria in a lab, evolution is a bit of a problem. Bacteria change so rapidly that a cool trait you create one day may be gone the next. Now a researcher reports he may ...

Bacteria with synthetic genetic “switches” show that antibiotics work differently than we thought Bacterial infections are the number one cause of death in hospital patients in the United States, and ...

A new study shows how cyanobacteria, or bacteria that produce energy through photosynthesis like plants, change the way they grow and divide in response to different levels of light. Under laboratory ...