Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

Researchers led by Professor Erik van Nimwegen at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, have discovered a new mechanism in ...

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

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 ...

Although they appear similar to bacteria under the microscope, they differ in many basic aspects: for example, in their cell membrane, metabolic pathways and genetic characteristics. Archaea were ...

In a mouse model, the CRISPR-enhanced four-phage cocktail (SNIPR001) led to a steady reduction in the E coli colony counts in stool, “showing you can modulate these bacteria in the gut by using ...