When food runs low, some bacteria kill and eat their neighbors. Study shows a survival strategy that changes how we think ...

Bacteria operate by a pretty simple set of biological commands: survive and reproduce. But a recent study is highlighting that, in some cases, the microscopic organisms will follow those commands by ...

Scientists have discovered a gruesome microbial survival strategy: when food is scarce, some bacteria kill and consume their neighbors.

But how these bacteria-killing viruses interact with ... an immunologist at Stanford University. “Cell lines are funny creatures,” he says. “They do things energetically that are probably ...

But scientists don't understand a fundamental process within bacteria cells: how they organize themselves before division. Driving vs. surfing When cells divide the cell splits into two "daughter ...

Breathing, at its core, is about moving electrons. In humans and most other organisms, oxygen acts as the final destination ...

By isolating individual bacteria, he and his colleagues discovered that the cells were behaving differently based on their past experience. Bacteria cells in colonies that had previously swarmed ...