The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a ...

Not all individuals in a population of bacteria are identical. Some may be on the verge of cell division, others are differentiating, others are in the process of adapting to changing environmental ...

The Min protein system prevents abnormal cell division in bacteria by forming oscillating patterns between the ends of a cell ("poles"). Despite decades of theoretical work, predicting the protein ...

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 ...

Their results revealed that it has some morphological differences from other cable bacteria, as well as genetic similarities to both genera. Among the most important findings were the pronounced ...

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 ...

TXA709 targets the filamenting temperature-sensitive mutant Z (FtsZ) bacterial cell division protein, blocking post-mitotic septum formation. TXA709 is being developed for synergistic use in ...

Although James Watson and Francis Crick determined the double-helical structure of DNA, DNA itself was identified nearly 90 years earlier by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher. While studying white ...

This allows mathematical calculations to be undertaken in order to predict how many bacteria will be present in a given time. The mean division time for bacteria population A is 20 minutes.

In May 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its Bacterial Priority Pathogens List (BPPL). In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Hatim Sati, MD, from the WHO’s Division of Antimicrobial ...