A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a virtual Gram staining technique that could transform how microbiologists stain and classify bacteria. This ...

Scientists have long known that bacteria come in many shapes and sizes, but understanding what those differences mean has ...

Bioinformatics and microbial taxonomy experts introduce the challenges of defining bacterial species in an era of rapidly ...

Bacterial vampirism has been identified in the Enterobacteriaceae family, revealing the link between sepsis and IBD, and highlighting new avenues for therapeutic development. Primarily seen as the ...

A new species of bacteria shapeshifts into a long thread-like form in a never-before-seen technique to spread from cell-to-cell within its roundworm host. A research team from San Diego State ...

A bizarre bacteria has been discovered with an ability previously thought impossible for its kind. This strange discovery could shine a light on how some of our earliest single-celled ancestors formed ...