Moreover, these conventional methods typically suffer from poor specificity and high background ... detect bacteria from millilitres of unprocessed (although diluted) blood at single-cell ...

Researchers have developed a ‘smart tweezer’ that is able to pluck a particular bacterial strain from a microbiome of trillions and sequence its genome in a more cost- and resource-effective ...

In other words, scientists were able to "listen" to the sound of a single bacteria ... vastly outperformed standard lab tests. If the bacteria no longer vibrate, the antibiotic in question ...

Single-celled bacteria exhibit previously unknown "multicellularity" Scientists have discovered that E. coli can exhibit some previously undocumented multicellular behavior Depositphotos ...

to profile messenger RNAs—representing thousands of genes—in thousands of single bacteria simultaneously. MERFISH also ...

No one likes to be alone. Even bacteria have figured out how to stick together – in an intricate structure called a biofilm. Bacteria have an ability to communicate that’s impressive considering that ...

The electrical potential across the bacterial cell envelope indicates when bacteria no longer operate as individual ... Although bacteria are single cellular organisms, they form spatially ...

The scientists used an innovative method to monitor antibiotic action in single bacteria in real time. "We demonstrated that ...

Everyone has a unique “fingerprint” of oral bacteria species ... only 8 species were present in every single participant’s mouth. “No two people were exactly alike. That’s truly a ...

single swirl that circulates across the entire well. In contrast, swimmers generate multiple small, disorganized local swirls—like scattered whirlpools moving in no particular direction.

but when we look at the whole colony of bacteria, they all look the same and we assume that they will all fall victim to the same antibiotic. No so, unfortunately. Just like people, every single ...

A small subset of bacteria sometimes hides out and escapes the effects of the drugs meant to kill them. These persisters can then come back with a vengeance and may no longer respond to ... monitored ...