Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China's Tiangong space ...

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

A UC San Diego-led study linked early childhood exposure to the bacterial toxin colibactin with the rise in early-onset ...

Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive ...

This bacterium is a common cause of infections in hospitals, and now researchers are a step closer to understanding why.

Several human pathogens exploit the kinetic forces generated by polymerizing actin to power their intracellular motility. Human cell-autonomous immune responses activate ...

7 Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany 8 Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Objective Bacterial translocation ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ... including genes associated with the activity and migration of immune cells. Male and female mice had distinct gene ...

We therefore combine ITIR-FCS with a segmentation algorithm to automatically identify bacterial cells to screen the effect of antimicrobial compounds on the dynamics of bacterial membranes as a ...

All the pure bacterial isolates were characterized as Gram-positive or Gram-negative by the standard Gram staining method ... C overnight and then adjusted O.D. to 0.5 at 600 nm; the cells were ...

There are many ways of classifying bacteria. One method is based on the cell membrane. In 1884, a bacteriologist named Christian Gram created a test that could determine if a bacterium had a thick ...