In labs, bacterial colonies usually grow in streaks in petri dishes, but until now no one has known how the colonies organize themselves in more realistic three-dimensional (3-D) environments, such as ...

From a box of Cracker Jack to The Da Vinci Code, everybody enjoys deciphering secret messages. But biomedical engineers at Duke University have taken the decoder ring to place it's never been ...

Depending on the initial conditions used, such as nutrient levels and space constraints, bacteria tend to grow in specific ways. Researchers have created a new type of encryption scheme based on how a ...

Scientists at the MPI-DS have investigated how this motion interacts with the growth of the entire colony, which can be observed in a wide variety of cellular aggregates. Such growth happens when ...

By testing for microbes in termite excrement, researchers can distinguish old droppings from fresh, and whether a colony is ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists said they developed a way to learn where an individual has been based on their bacterial "fingerprint". A new study from Lund University published in Genome Biology and ...

Termite pellets can linger long after the insects that dropped them have disappeared. By testing for microbes in the ...

If there’s life — or evidence of past life — on Mars, it’s terrifyingly likely that we might accidentally miss finding it, maybe by just a few centimeters. At a dry lakebed in Chile’s Atacama desert, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Despite their mostly microscopic stature, bacteria are a pretty big ...