Bacteria are among the most diverse and ancient forms of life on Earth. Yet, much of what is known about them comes from a ...

One species of bacteria seems to get many of the perks of sexual reproduction without actually having sex, a new study finds. Different strains of bacteria called Mycobacterium smegmatis swap large, ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered surprising insights into a large, previously unstudied group of bacteria, ...

Bacteria are among the most diverse and ancient forms of life on Earth. Yet, much of what we know about them comes from a small group of species ...

The microbial ecosystem nesting in your mouth is giving scientists a rare tool to learn about how bacteria multiply. One of the most common bacteria living in your dental plaque, a filamentous ...

A colony of E. coli bacteria with a novel and entirely synthetic genome is alive and reproducing, slowly but surely, at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, ...

In process that is shrouded in mystery, rod-shaped bacteria reproduce by splitting themselves in two. By applying advanced mathematics to laboratory data, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has ...

Researchers have discovered a 'clockwork' mechanism that controls cell division in bacteria. They report how a small signaling molecule starts the 'clock', which informs the cell about the right time ...

"Our goal is to know the function of every gene so we can develop a complete model of how a cell works." The first-ever bacteria with a genetic code engineered entirely from scratch in a lab is now ...