“It’s like building with Legos,” Tullman-Ercek said. “It’s not desirable to use the same shape block over and over again; we need different shapes. Learning from bacteria can help us build new and ...

Despite being genetically identical, bacteria can vary considerably in shape and size. Whether these variations affect ...

Bacteria are classified into different groups depending on their shape. There are five distinct bacterial shapes: spherical, rod, spiral, comma, and corkscrew. Bacteria, just like any other living ...

The researchers report in the journal Cell that expression of the shape-changing protein — which they named CrvA — is activated through the process of quorum sensing, in which bacteria communicate ...

Bacteria come in all shapes and sizes -- some are straight as a rod, others twist like a corkscrew. Shape plays an important role in how bacteria infiltrate and attack cells in the body.

What do watermelons and bacteria have in common? Just like the tasty fruit, microbes can be molded into unusual shapes, a study in Nature Communications has shown. The paper, produced by ...

“Imagine that the wall is like the bacteria wearing a high-vis jacket,” explains lead author, Dr Katarzyna Mickiewicz. “This gives them a regular shape, for example a rod or a ...

Scientists have used light patterns to control the swimming speed of bacteria and direct them to form different shapes, according to a new study in the journal eLife. Controlling bacteria in this ...

"We wanted to exploit this phenomenon to see if we could shape the concentration of bacteria using light." To do this, Frangipane and his team sent light from a projector through a microscope lens, ...