In short, while bacteria may not have “sex lives” in the way humans do, their frequent DNA exchanges play a crucial role in keeping their species distinct and thriving. This discovery opens up ...

The team used a high-powered microscope system to simulate ... Understanding exactly why gut bacteria are adept at entering the bloodstream through tiny tears or cuts in the bowel can help ...

If we looked at our skin through a microscope we would see tiny crannies and crevices. Inside these tiny crevices, millions of bacteria are living and growing, doubling their population every ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many microbes — like plants and animals — are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

“Only the most experienced technicians can make further distinctions by examining the bacteria’s form through microscopes — the accuracy of our image-recognition technology now matches that ...

Glenn et al, Bacterial vampirism mediated through taxis to serum ... that can be entry points for the bacteria into the bloodstream. Using a high-powered microscope system designed by Baylink ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans ... biologists snapping images of the cyanobacteria under a microscope saw a cell that had grown a long, ...

coli bacteria (commonly used in laboratory studies) in regular liquid and in cystic fibrosis-like samples and then observed the specimens under a microscope to watch how the bacterial cells grew ...

Microscopes remarkably make the invisible visible through magnification ... In this course we will use a variety of microscopes to take still and moving images of bacteria, plankton, protozoa, lichens ...