Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.
Soil bacteria in ancient lama-bordo fields reveal bacteria capable of fertilizing crops and transforming sustainable rural agriculture.
A study published in Nature on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, reveals that a certain gut bacterium is capable of generating electricity. Previously, scientists were aware ...
We often hear about bacteria, but what exactly are they? A bacterium is a living organism that consists of a single cell (unicellular). It has ...
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40,000-year sleeper microbes wake in Alaska; 6 months later, upheaval
Forty millennia after they went dormant in Arctic ice, microscopic life forms in Alaska have stirred again, and the planet is already feeling the consequences. In the span of roughly six months, what ...
A Dartmouth College research team has reported that plasmids can force bacteria to form dense clusters in order to tolerate antibiotics which suggests a source of treatment failure that does not ...
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