Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.

The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii splitting into multiple cells at once, a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

We often hear about bacteria, but what exactly are they? A bacterium is a living organism that consists of a single cell (unicellular). It has ...

A study published in Nature on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, reveals that a certain gut bacterium is capable of generating electricity. Previously, scientists were aware ...

A Dartmouth College research team has reported that plasmids can force bacteria to form dense clusters in order to tolerate antibiotics which suggests a source of treatment failure that does not ...