One species of bacteria seems to get many of the perks of sexual reproduction without actually having sex, a new study finds. Different strains of bacteria called Mycobacterium smegmatis swap large, ...

“It’s really exciting,” said microbiologist Steven Sinkins of the University of Glasgow, U.K., who was not involved in the work. “For Wolbachia researchers this has been the big unanswered ...

Six people have died and 25 have been hospitalized across 18 states from illness caused by food contaminated with Listeria ...

The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii splitting into multiple cells at once, a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria ...

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Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have discovered a "clockwork" mechanism that controls cell division in bacteria. In two publications, in "Nature Communications" und "PNAS", ...