Here's why there are such a wide variety of symptoms associated with meningitis and why not every form of meningitis is ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

When bacteria replicate their genetic material in preparation for cell division, the process starts at a specific point on the bacterial chromosome and continues along the chromosome in both ...

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's along with an international team of researchers have discovered a surprising new ...

a researcher from the CDC's division of bacterial diseases and lead author of the study, in a written response to TIME.

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

as a bacterial colony develops, “growing pains” are inevitable, as proliferating cells must balance growth rates with the stress of overcrowding and nutrient resource limitations. Other factors, such ...

“It's usually assumed that when you have DNA replication, bacteria will then go through cell division,” Hill said. “We found that DNA replication, or at least some form of DNA replication, is ...