THE L-forms of bacteria, a study of which has been described recently 1, are dwarf organisms derived from a complex transformation of bacteria, either spontaneously or under various noxious ...

Researchers have discovered a new life form of Listeria, an opportunistic pathogen responsible for serious food poisoning. These bacteria can reproduce and proliferate as so-called L-forms.

Researchers have for the first time identified the genetic mechanisms involved in the formation and survival of L-form bacteria. L-form bacteria, which were first discovered in the 1930s ...

According to the authors of the report, this is the first time bacteria have been shown to change their form inside the human body. They do so dropping their cell wall (a process called L-form ...

In 1988, health officials in the United States learned that some germs within one family of bacteria, Enterobacteriaceae, could produce an enzyme capable of breaking down common antibiotics.

Hakansson and his co-authors became interested in the possibility that some bacteria might persist on surfaces when they published work last year showing that bacteria form biofilms when colonizing ...

The world is atwitter about the discovery of a strain of bacteria called GFAJ-1 that can ... the discussions that call this a completely new form of life are getting completely ahead of themselves.