In a new study, scientists analyzed how a biological battle played out between a strain of E. coli and a T7 bacteriophage, ...

The Rutgers group of collaborators found that the E. coli genome encodes at least 150 small proteins, most of which are functionally uncharacterized. Small bacterial proteins are defined as having ...

While it is clearly informative to study 'static' samples, such as bacteria that are not alive, observing the living organism allows us to directly follow changes in the course of an organism's life, ...

Bacteria can be turned into living factories that churn out complex molecules using reactions catalysed by light 1.

The E. coli cells were imaged by the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL. A tiny needle - just a few nanometers wide - was run over the bacterial cell, “feeling” the shape to create an image, a ...

Scientists have infected bacteria with a virus aboard the International Space Station to see how they would interact in ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

Two recent studies from the University of California, Riverside, published in the same issue of Gut Microbes highlight the ...

In A Nutshell Living detectors: Researchers modified E. coli bacteria to light up when they sense acetic acid, the chemical ...

Stunning images reveal for the first time how antibiotics pierce deadly bacteria’s armor. British scientists have shown how life-saving drugs called polymyxins puncture the defenses of harmful bugs.