A new study from Caltech demonstrates that soil bacteria can adapt under stress, particularly when a key nutrient, phosphorus ...
Using an innovative combination of biochemical experiments and ultra-high-resolution microscopy, a research team at Kiel ...
Bacteria have no neurons or memories in the human sense. Yet in a new study, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech found that individual E. colicells carried traces of past ...
Colony expansion is important for establishing territories. It is unclear to what extent bacteria can maintain colony expansion under nutrient limitation. Here, we found that Escherichia coli biofilms ...
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...