Large cells like the ones that populate the human body have an elaborate internal structure and delivery system that ensures that essential proteins get to where they need to be. Bacterial cells are ...

Bacteria that rarely tumble are likely to get trapped by obstacles, slowing dispersion. Bacteria that tumble frequently often “retrace their steps,” also slowing dispersion. Dispersion is maximized by ...

Small-scale analysis of RNA diffusion rates throughout cells of yeast and bacteria reveals that rates of change of entropy in certain time intervals are larger in areas with higher diffusion rates, ...

In a confined space, bacteria can change their environment in their favour. In an open and mixed environment, by contrast, bacteria must cooperate to carry out these functions, such as the production ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple ...

Image: Stalks increase the rate of nutrient uptake by efficiently increasing cell surface area. The finding has potential implications for both ecology and drug production Bloomington, Ind. — The ...

One idea that has been proposed is that microgravity indirectly changes the bacteria’s physiology. It’s an idea that Zea and colleagues probed in a study published this month (November 2) in PLOS ONE.

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The dispersion of bacteria moving through porous environments follows an astonishingly simple and universal law. The Earth is populated by swimming microorganisms, such as bacteria, which are ...

Bloomington, Ind. -- The constellation of shapes and sizes among bacteria is as remarkable as it is mysterious. Why should Spirochaeta halophila resemble a bedspring coil, Stella a star and ...

Read before the joint meeting of the Pediatric Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York State Society, the New Jersey Pediatric Society, the Philadelphia Pediatric Society, and the ...