Researchers have now developed a new single-cell genome technique to understand how bacteria interact and exchange genetic material, including antibiotic resistance genes at the individual cell level.

Prokaryotes are single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles within the cell, and include all bacteria, while eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have a true ...

Cells are microscopic building blocks of unicellular and multicellular living organisms. Animal, plant, fungal and bacterial cells are different in terms of structure but also have many similarities.

Imagine a country with a billion people, where every individual has different interests and different goals. You will never know their interests and goals until you ask them, but asking a billion ...

A study utilizing alveolar macrophage-like (AML) cells revealed that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is critical for fighting ...

but it has never been seen in simple life forms such as bacteria until now. Luísa Jabbur, then at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and her colleagues artificially exposed ...

Comamonadacae is a family of bacteria often found growing on plastics in water. A new study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also identified the enzyme ...

But now, with bacteria evolving resistance to more and more antibiotics, phage therapy is drawing a second look ... to move unwanted molecules out of the cell. By modifying these “efflux pumps ...

Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its own rules. This video shows one Corynebacterium matruchotii bacterium dividing into many ...

RNA already has a meaning in every cell, and it’s a pretty simple code. Amy Buck, University of Edinburgh In 2024, new studies have exposed additional layers of this story, showing, for example, that ...

A human cell culture model of the lung's most important immune cells, alveolar macrophages, helped make a key finding that is prompting researchers to rethink the role of another immune protein in ...

But now, with bacteria evolving resistance to more and more antibiotics, phage therapy is drawing a second look ... to move unwanted molecules out of the cell. By modifying these “efflux pumps ...