Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

Embedded in the boundary between the inside and outside of each cell are membrane proteins. They act as first responders by ...

Bacteria reproduce in a number of different ways. Some of the more unusual methods include budding and baeocyte formation. The most common method, however, is binary fission - essentially splitting ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. “I was quite shocked, truly,” said ...

A living, synthetic cell has been made by transplanting a complete genome into a dead bacterium, bringing it back to life. The breakthrough could help synthetic biology live up to its huge, but still ...

For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells by a ratio of ten to one. That figure, it turns out, was ...