Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms.

Antibiotics are a double-edged sword – they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the ...

The magnetosomes are aligned in a chain-like fashion, which impart a magnetic dipole to the bacterial cell and allows the ... oxygen concentration (top of the diagram) swim forward to the OATZ ...

Under normal circumstances, a bacterial cell will reproduce by a form of cell ... James Watson and Francis Crick determined the three-dimensional structure of DNA. This discovery enabled ...