Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model ...

During an inspection, E. coli was found at 1,000 times the legal limit in Crosby, Texas, roughly 30 minutes northeast of Houston. Although the contaminated water isn't getting into the region's ...

This is reflected in the bacteria changing shape. Usually, E. coli bacteria are rod-shaped, but when exposed to Ciprofloxacin, they become long filaments. The bacteria prioritize repairing the ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell? Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes. Aa Aa Aa ...