Kefir and yogurt are both fermented foods that contain beneficial bacteria called probiotics. Kefir has a higher probiotic ...

“The characteristics of multicellularity are very strongly ... Instead of continuing to grow into an ever-larger circle, the bacterial colony shape-shifted. The fondant-smooth top began to wrinkle and ...

Thanks to this strange process, a colony of C ... revealing a unique bacterial cell cycle and an example of how cell morphology and reproductive strategy can influence the spatial organization ...

Beneath the shimmering blue surface of our oceans lies a world of color and life so breathtaking it almost feels otherworldly ...

The world’s foremost influenza experts know remarkably little; they have not even known that flu was a virus for very long. To inform us about its evolutionary history, its human history and what it ...

Analyzing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique from Würzburg can do this much more ...

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

This connection will lay the groundwork for new approaches to understanding the dynamics of bacterial colonies and tumors. The interaction between growth and the active migration of cells plays a ...

Researchers have developed the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC), comprising 340 gut bacterial strains from 198 ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics ...