However, bacteria are often subjected to abrupt changes, for example in temperature and organic-solvent concentration, that necessitate the immediate modification of existing membrane phospholipid ...

Keep reading to learn more about Gram-positive bacteria, including their characteristics, common examples, and diseases they can cause. Gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that contain a thick ...

In the latest example of bacteria being "literally everywhere," scientists appear to have found evidence of microbes living harmlessly in our brains. For the study, presented last week at the ...

In hundreds of videos of antibiotic-treated bacteria, the scientists watched calcium, as a marker of cell membrane voltage, going in and out of the cell. Instead of general randomness in that process, ...

But even without getting into the molecular nitty gritty, there are phenotypic differences between groups of bacteria that can be used to differentiate them. This includes characteristics like their ...

This large group of cells then splits into two identical consortia. MMB are the only example of bacteria that are known to live like this. Many other bacteria clump together as simple aggregates ...

To study just how big a risk bacteria plays to the future of human space colonization, the researchers placed four examples of bacteria in media with soil chemistry, UV radiation exposure ...

In this process, universal gene markers found in every single known example of bacteria, fungi and yeast are used to describe the diversity and distribution of microbes in the samples taken at ...