Discover how E. coli survival in hypergravity extends the limits of microbial resilience under extreme conditions. What's the News: Some bacteria can live in extreme "hypergravity," found a new study ...

In process that is shrouded in mystery, rod-shaped bacteria reproduce by splitting themselves in two. By applying advanced mathematics to laboratory data, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has ...

Jon Chase: Bacteria are a type of microorganism, each made up of just one cell. Some bacteria are harmful and cause disease, and some are useful, like the one hundred trillion bacterial cells that ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 American scientists have taken a major step towards creating the first ever artificial life form by synthetically reproducing the DNA of a bacteria, according to a study. The move, ...

A diverse range of life forms exists deep below Earth's surface, scientists have concluded, but they survive at an incredibly slow pace. Long-lived bacteria, reproducing only once every 10,000 years, ...

Environmentally friendly 'living concrete' has been developed by scientists mixing sand, gel and bacteria to create a building material as strong as cement. The new material contains a form of ...