A propagating mechanism helps Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria adopt a competent state that allows them to resist antibiotic ...

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division has declared the Dougherty County portion of the Flint River "impaired." ...

Though profitable, Nestlé’s water division has been dogged by scandal in recent years, with concerns that its bottled water brands Perrier, Contrex, Vittel, and Hépar were contaminated with bacteria, ...

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 ...

Analyzing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique from Würzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods. Not all individuals in a population of ...

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 ...

Scientists first reported in 2016 that specific gut microbes known as commensal bacteria, which cause no ... professor of internal medicine, division of rheumatology and immunology, at The Ohio ...

However, the precise mechanisms through which saccharin can impact bacteria have remained elusive. In this work, we demonstrate that saccharin inhibits cell division, leading to cell filamentation ...

Sobel, MD,with the Division of Infectious Diseases ... need for a major change to the treatment approach for women with bacterial vaginosis “with respect to how women should be counseled ...

Fischbach had initially reasoned that the surface-stapled toxin's abundance would get ever more diluted with each bacterial division, gradually muting the immune response. Just the opposite occurred.

matruchotii that might drive its strange growth and division is that it lacks a flagellum; the whip-like appendage other bacteria use to get around. Because it is fixed in place, its fast growth could ...

Corynebacterium matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria living in dental plaque. Scientists uncovered an interesting mechanism of cell division in C. matruchotii. They found that this ...