An interdisciplinary research consortium from the Nanoscience Center at University of Jyvaskyla in Finland (group leaders Dr. Lotta-Riina Sundberg and Prof. Ilari Maasilta) has found that bacteria and viruses can be imaged ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 4, 2017
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An Android application could dramatically change how microbiologists quantify data and how they go about their work.
Computer Sciences
Mar 8, 2017
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a strategy for using synthetic biology in therapeutics. The approach enables continual production ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2016
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As they age, more and more defects arise in most organisms. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have discovered that microorganisms like bacteria can keep a colony young by practicing a common strategy for propagation. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 14, 2016
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As the world prepares to watch the Summer Olympics' track and field events in Rio, it will come as no surprise that the runners in each race travel in the same direction around the track. But new research shows that if those ...
General Physics
Jul 13, 2016
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No two bacteria are identical – even when they are genetically the same. A new study from researchers from Eawag, ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen reveals the conditions ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 10, 2016
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Researchers believe that genetically modified bacteria can help explain how a developing animal keeps all of its parts and organs in the same general proportions as every other member of its species.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2016
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Researchers from UAB describe for the first time, in a work published in PLOS ONE, a model of the behaviour of a bacterial colony that shows how it protects itself against toxic substances like antibiotics during the colonisation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 29, 2016
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New research to be published January 13 in the journal Scientific Reports shows that some bacterial cultures adopt an all-for-one/one-for-all strategy that would make a socialist proud in preparing for the possibility of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 13, 2016
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(Phys.org)—One of the remarkable properties of bacterial colonies is the self-ordering aggregation and orientation of bacterial cells. Bacteria secrete extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) that form biofilm-like structures ...
