Researchers know that shape is determined by the cell wall, yet little is known about how bacteria monitor and control it. Since the cell wall is the target of most antibiotics, understanding how ...

Figure 1: Three theories for cellular shape regulation. To test our hypothesis of strain-dependent PG elongation, we designed an experiment consisting of two phases. In phase 1, filamentous cells ...

“During tissue formation, dynamic cell shape changes drive morphogenesis while asymmetric divisions create cellular diversity ...

However, despite intensive research, the factors that determine the shape of bacterial cells remain, in many cases, unknown. A team of researchers led by Martin Thanbichler has now discovered the ...

coli). These noxious cells, which are able to go dormant, are highly resistant to antimicrobial treatments and account for various relapsing chronic infections with common symptoms such as severe ...

The bacteria are alive, though unusually shaped and reproducing slowly ... Now scientists have created an E.coli genome four times larger. Credit...Thomas Deerinck, NCMIR/Science Source After ...

By Carl Zimmer In a Caribbean mangrove forest, scientists have discovered a species of bacteria that grows to the size and shape of a human eyelash. These cells are the largest bacteria ever ...