In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

An insect ecology professor at the University of Kentucky explored her research on how bacteria affects spider reproduction ...

Dead bacteria release an enzyme that breaks down their contents into nutrients for other bacteria, highlighting a novel ...

Urbanization reshapes soil microbes in surprising ways—bacteria adapt and become alike, while fungi resist change.

Yuval Gottlieb-Dror from the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rehovot, discovered that certain bacteria living inside ...

Being magnetotactic means that MMB are part of a select group of bacteria that orient their movement based on Earth's ...

Passed onto offspring via infection of the egg, but not sperm, these bacteria have developed a range of reproduction-manipulating mechanisms that ensure their continued prevalence. Chief among these ...

Antibiotics treat bacterial infections by either destroying cell walls or preventing reproduction. Some antibiotics may also have anti-inflammatory properties that can help other types of illnesses.

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

Birds do it, and bees do it. Indeed, researchers estimate that over 99.9% of eukaryotes reproduce sexually. What, then, are the true costs and benefits of sex? Yet again, this simple example ...

Bacteria reproduce by cloning themselves through binary fission - a kind of asexual reproduction. In the right conditions, they can reproduce very quickly. Some species can replicate themselves in ...