"The UN estimates that by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer," says Arnold Mathijssen, a ...
New research from UChicago reveals that bacteria use the same ‘run-and-tumble’ strategy to move through everything from open ...
Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...
Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) A new study shows how bacteria juggle ...
New studies from Arizona State University reveal surprising ways bacteria can move without their flagella - the slender, whip-like propellers that usually drive them forward. Movement lets bacteria ...
These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...
The bacteria of the family Desulfobulbaceae are like living electric cables—they can conduct electrons over centimeter-scale distances along their filamentous structures. These electric currents can ...