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Jan. 15, 2021 Researchers have identified a novel mechanism by which bacteria form membrane vesicles, which bacteria employ to communicate with each other or to defend themselves against antibiotics. By studying ...
Jan. 8, 2021 An important and still unanswered question is how new genes that cause antibiotic resistance arise. In a new study, researchers have shown how new genes that produce resistance can arise from ...
July 29, 2021 New research finds that sexual reproduction and multicellularity drive diversity among different ...
June 14, 2021 The intracellular purple sulfur bacterium 'Candidatus Thiodictyon intracellulare' has lost the ability to oxidize sulfur and now supplies a ciliate with energy from ...
Dec. 7, 2022 Modern eukaryotic cells contain numerous so-called organelles, which once used to be independent bacteria. In order to understand how these bacteria were integrated into the cells in the course of ...
Apr. 18, 2022 Have you ever wondered if bacteria make distinctive sounds? If we could listen to bacteria, we would be able to know whether they are alive or not. When bacteria are killed using an antibiotic, those ...
Jan. 6, 2022 The bacterium Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera and is responsible for seven known pandemics. The seventh cholera pandemic began in 1961 and is still active. ...
Feb. 15, 2022 Researchers have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion years ago. It happened soon after eukaryotes began to feed on bacteria. These ...
May 10, 2021 How is it possible to move in the desired direction without a brain or nervous system? Single-celled organisms apparently manage this feat without any problems: for example, they can swim towards ...
Aug. 4, 2023 Bacteria make up more than 10% of all living things but until recently we had little realization that, as in humans, soil bacteria have internal clocks that synchronize their activities with the ...