On a test run of their model, researchers found evidence that phages may increase gut bacteria's sensitivity to antibiotics. Their results were published in the journal Cell Host and Microbe.

A new paper presents a mathematical model for the motion of bacteria that includes cell division and death, the basic ingredients of the cell cycle. Biofilms form when microorganisms such as ...

"We haven't had a robust understanding of how properties of the environment and cell motility influence bacterial dispersion." Mattingly decided to focus his model on 'surface states' that ...

Bio-Synthesis Urine Bacteria RNA Purification Kit is designed for the rapid preparation ... The process involves first pelleting the urine bacterial cells, and then lysing the cells with the ...

The investigators were able to capture images of the growing bacteria over time, and used computational tools to analyze and then model events like cell division, growth, and DNA replication in ...

"A few years ago, we set out to do extensive growth inhibition experiments to test the growth law using the model organism ... data from 10 million bacterial cells in their growth inhibition ...

Analyzing the gene activity of every single bacterial ... model organisms such as Salmonella enterica, we show that the method is very efficient," explains Dr. Homberger. It achieves a very high ...

coli for short) as the model organism in the laboratory. We now know that bacterial cells are surrounded by a protective cell wall made up of a large sac-like structure called peptidoglycan or PG.

The team also demonstrated in a mouse model how to prevent this from happening. The study shows that pieces of cell walls from Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria "hijack" a protein on the lining of ...