They exist in pairs, chains, or clusters. They are found everywhere, including on and in the human body and within water, ...

Now, using this natural adaptation as inspiration, researchers from Tampere University and Anhui Jianzhu University have created a new doughnut-shaped micro-robot capable of autonomously navigating ...

The newly developed tiny robot is powered by a special synthetic material called liquid crystalline elastomer.

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The ...

We estimated all-age and age-specific deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributable to and associated with bacterial AMR for 22 pathogens, 84 pathogen–drug combinations, and 11 ...

VALENCIA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria ...

Bacteria exhibit species-specific numbers and localization patterns of flagella. How specificity in number and pattern is achieved is poorly understood but often depends on a soluble GTPase called ...

THERE is a considerable variation in the morphology of the flagella in the lower plant groups and in the flagellates. The flagellar structures have been used as systematic characters since the ...

Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its own rules. This video shows one Corynebacterium matruchotii bacterium dividing into many ...

Molecular mechanism for a bacterial infection discovered Date: September 20, 2024 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: Scientists have discovered the mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella ...

Researchers have isolated 18 bacterial strains from stool from healthy people that could potentially be a more effective treatment for antibiotic-resistant gut infections. The team found that ...