Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.

To enhance the early detection of novel infectious bacteria that could cause outbreaks of infectious disease and public health emergencies, a team of researchers in Penn State's College of ...

New research has found that six probiotic Bacillus strains are resistant to several antibiotics. Genetic analysis of other Bacillus strains has shown genes that contribute to antibiotic resistance ...

A paper was published by the Kazan Federal University in Frontiers in Microbiology. The Laboratory of Enzyme Biosynthesis and Bioengineering of Kazan Federal University is engaged in several projects ...

South African botanists have found evidence that the largest Cape geophyte genus, Oxalis, has developed a unique association with the bacterial genus Bacillus, that help it to fix nitrogen from the ...

Robert Koch, a founding father of microbiology, used hands-on experiments in the 1800s to find the bacteria behind three of history's deadliest diseases. Robert Koch peers into a microscope in his ...

Doctors warn that improperly stored cooked rice can cause food poisoning due to the bacteria Bacillus cereus. If rice is left ...

The bacterium causing leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, has been next to impossible to study because of extreme difficulties associated with its culturing and the lack of animal models. A particularly ...