A team of researchers has discovered how to label and light the sugar backbone of a bacterial cell wall. The findings will advance immune system research, they say.

New microscope technique could speed identification of deadly bacteria Date: June 8, 2015 Source: The Optical Society Summary: A new way of rapidly identifying bacteria, which requires a slight ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their potential use in a host of biotechnological processes to benefit humankind, from ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining ...

Researchers have combined two imaging techniques in one microscope to provide high-resolution images of cells like this bacteria cell Dahlberg et al. View 1 Image ...

Cell wall synthesis plays a key role in bacterial growth: the cell division protein FtsZ forms the so-called Z-ring in the center of the cell, thus initiating the division process.

Gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that contain a thick cell wall. During the Gram staining process — a test that experts use to view the bacteria under a microscope — they appear purple or blue.

The microscopic world of cells and bacteria is incredibly important to understand, but tricky to study in detail, especially without harming the subjects. Researchers at EPFL have now developed a ...

First discovered more than a century ago, phages latch onto specific receptors on the surface of a bacterial cell and inject their genetic material into the cell to start the infection. Some phages, ...

Researchers found bacterial cells so large they are easily visible to the naked eye, ... Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: The Biggest Bacteria Ever Found Needs No Microscope.

It is 50 times larger than other giant bacteria. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ... A closer look under the microscope revealed the cells’ DNA-containing sacs.