One species of bacteria seems to get many of the perks of sexual reproduction without actually having sex, a new study finds. Different strains of bacteria called Mycobacterium smegmatis swap large, ...

The microbial ecosystem nesting in your mouth is giving scientists a rare tool to learn about how bacteria multiply. One of the most common bacteria living in your dental plaque, a filamentous ...

A colony of E. coli bacteria with a novel and entirely synthetic genome is alive and reproducing, slowly but surely, at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, ...

“It’s really exciting,” said microbiologist Steven Sinkins of the University of Glasgow, U.K., who was not involved in the work. “For Wolbachia researchers this has been the big unanswered ...

"Our goal is to know the function of every gene so we can develop a complete model of how a cell works." The first-ever bacteria with a genetic code engineered entirely from scratch in a lab is now ...

Researchers have discovered a 'clockwork' mechanism that controls cell division in bacteria. They report how a small signaling molecule starts the 'clock', which informs the cell about the right time ...

The bacteria, shown here next to a dime, are close to the size of human eyelashes. (Tomas Tyml | The Regents of the University of California, LBNL) Bacteria typically live out their teeny-tiny lives ...