Ground-breaking research will help to make one of the most versatile of
Bacteria even more useful to society and the environment. Though it lives naturally in the soil, the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
What if
Bacteria could talk to each other? What if they had a sense of touch? A new study suggests both, and theorizes that such cells may, in fact, need to communicate in order to perform certain fun
New research points to two important roles for
Bacteria that live in the underground fungal gardens of leafcutter ants: they help decompose leaves that ants bring to the gardens and play a major role
Bacteria have evolved different systems for secreting proteins. One, called a type VI secretion system, is found in about a quarter of all
Bacteria with two membranes. Despite being common, researcher
Not all that glitters is gold. Sometimes it is just
Bacteria trying to get ahead in life. Many sea creatures glow with a biologically produced light. This phenomenon, known as bioluminescence, is obse
Bacteria normally found 30 kilometers above Earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity. Bacillus stratosphericus -- a microbe commonly found in high concentrations in the
Scientists have created a "designer slime" that can double the electrical output of existing microbial fuel cells. Bacillus stratosphericus -- a microbe commonly found in high concentrations
A strain of the potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as MRSA has jumped from livestock to humans, according to a new study.
Manuka honey could help clear chronic wound infections and even prevent them from developing in the first place, according to a new study. The findings provide further evidence for the clinical use of
Tumor-targeted bioluminescent
Bacteria have been shown for the first time to provide accurate 3-D images of tumors in mice, further advancing the potential for targeted cancer drug delivery.
A disease-fighting protein in our teardrops has been tethered to a tiny transistor, enabling scientists to discover exactly how it destroys dangerous
Bacteria. The research could prove critical to lon
Nevada, the "Silver State," is well-known for mining precious metals. But some scientists do a different type of mining. They sluice through every water body they can find, looking for new f
Bacteria are able to build camouflaged homes for themselves inside healthy cells. A team that revealed how a pair of proteins from the
Bacteria Legionella pneumophila, which causes Legionnaires diseas
In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers have created a living neon sign composed of millions of
Bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs
Research expected to help scientists to discover new ways of genetically engineering
Bacteria to manufacture biofuels overturns a generally accepted 44-year-old assumption about how certain kinds of b
Scientists have discovered a new signal that helps invading
Bacteria communicate but also helps targeted rice plants coordinate defensive attacks on the disease-causing invaders, a finding that could
Derek Lovley, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the head of the Geobacter project, found that some
Bacteria naturally produce electricity through their ability t
Rensselaer researchers have developed a way to pinpoint and neutralize harmful proteins, such as anthrax toxin or even cancer cells, by coating nanotubes with a peptide that attracts the proteins and
Located between 200 and 1,000 meters below the ocean surface is a "twilight zone" where insufficient sunlight penetrates for microorganisms to perform photosynthesis. Details are now emergin
Biologists have long known that organisms from
Bacteria to humans use the 24 hour cycle of light and darkness to set their biological clocks. But exactly how these clocks are synchronized at the molec
Panda feces contains
Bacteria with potent effects in breaking down plant material in the way needed to tap biomass as a major new source of "biofuels" produced not from corn and other food s
A research team has cataloged, down to the letter, exactly what parts of the genetic code are essential for survival in one
Bacterial species, Caulobacter crescentus. They found that 12 percent of the
Probiotic
Bacteria have the potential to alter brain neurochemistry and treat anxiety and depression-related disorders, according to a new study by researchers in Ireland and Canada.
A team of German and Canadian scientists has shown that today's plague pathogen has been around at least 600 years. The Black Death claimed the lives of one-third of Europeans in just five years from
Researchers have successfully re-engineered the protein-making machinery in
Bacteria, a technical tour de force that promises to revolutionize the study and treatment of a variety of diseases.
Earth's oldest fossils have been found in Australia. The microscopic fossils show convincing evidence for cells and
Bacteria living in an oxygen-free world over 3.4 billion years ago.
Kangaroos form an important niche in the tree of life, but until now their DNA had never been sequenced. In a new article, an international consortium of researchers present the first kangaroo genome
Sanitizing the outside of produce may not be enough to remove harmful food pathogens, according to a new study that demonstrated that Salmonella and E. coli can live inside plant tissues.
In the case of sap-feeding insects, intimate associations with microbes offer a source for essential nutrients that their sugary diets just don't include. Now, researchers have new insight into organi
While intensive research efforts have gone into developing ways to harness hydrogen energy to fuel our everyday lives, a natural example of a living hydrogen-powered 'fuel cell' has gone unnoticed. Re
In a biotechnological tour de force, engineering researchers have now unveiled a new method for converting simple glucose into biofuels and petrochemical substitutes that is up to 10 times faster than
The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transfer across long distances could revolutionize nan
A recent study provides strong evidence that mitochondria share a common evolutionary ancestor with a lineage of marine
Bacteria known as SAR11, arguably the most abundant group of microorganisms on Earth.
Microbiologists have uncovered a sneaky trick by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa to oust its competitors. Its means of attack helps it survive in the outside environment and may even help it cause infection. P. aeruginosa injects toxins into rival
Bacteria through a needle-like structure. The toxins degrade their competitors' protective barriers -- their cell walls.
Microbiologists have uncovered a sneaky trick by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa to oust its competitors. Its means of attack helps it survive in the outside environment and may even help it cause infection. P. aeruginosa injects toxins into rival
Bacteria through a needle-like structure. The toxins degrade their competitors' protective barriers -- their cell walls.
Researchers have diagnosed a complex sequence of movements that make-up the "twitching" motility in
Bacteria with type IV pili (TFP). TFP act like Batman's grappling hooks that extend and bind to a surface to retract and pull the cell along. Using a high-speed camera and a novel two-point tracking algorithm, researchers also noticed the
Bacteria had the additional capability to "sli
Biologists identified a new way in which
Bacteria hijack healthy cells during infection, which could provide a target for new antibiotics.