Researchers found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria rapidly assemble their T6SS nanoweapons in response to outer membrane ...

Bacteria are too small to be seen by the naked eye and yet are the most diverse group of organisms on Earth. The individual cell averages just one micrometer in size (for context, an average human ...

Some bacteria deploy tiny spearguns to retaliate against rival attacks. Researchers at the University of Basel have mimicked ...

a bacterium that preys upon other bacteria. The team thought it might be a good candidate for finding histones because the bacterium changes size throughout its lifecycle and thus would need to ...

When a single bacterial cell divides into two during periods of rapid growth, it doesn't split in half once it reaches a ...