A mathematical model provides new insights into the distribution of genetic information during bacterial cell division The precise segregation of DNA and the faithful inheritance of plasmids are ...

MIT chemists have discovered the structure of a protein that can pump toxic molecules out of bacterial cells. Proteins similar to this one, which is found in E. coli, are believed to help bacteria ...

Bacterial styrene oxidase isomerase has been known to science for more than three decades, but its mechanism of action has ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 56, No. 1 (2011), pp. 37-48 (12 pages) Flow cytometric determinations of membrane integrity, nucleic acid content, and respiratory activity were combined with dilution ...

Sequencing the genome of single bacterial cells has long been technically difficult due to the seemingly incorrigible bias in the gene amplification stage of the process, making it hard to produce ...

Viruses are so simple in their structure, they may not even qualify as living things. Yet, they are ruthless in their robotic ...