Bacteria are classified into different groups depending on their shape. There are five distinct bacterial shapes: spherical, rod, spiral, comma, and corkscrew. Bacteria, just like any other living ...

These bacteria can easily survive in many different environments, including those with a scarcity of nutrients. The bacteria are able to go through a gastrointestinal tract and then onto their next ...

“It’s not desirable to use the same shape block over and over again; we need different shapes. Learning from bacteria can help us build new and better structures at this microscopic scale.” The study, ...

"This paper gets to the root of a question that has been open since [Dutch scientist and so-called 'Father of Microbiology'] Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked through a microscope 300 years ago and saw ...

Experts divide them into Gram-positive cocci or bacilli, depending on their shape. Gram-negative bacteria have different structures. They have a far thinner layer of peptidoglycan, which is why ...

Scientists call the formation of this shape “supercoiling,” and now, after more than 50 years, they understand how bacteria do it. Using cryo-EM, Egelman and his team found that the protein that makes ...

In these longitudinally-split bacteria, once the division is complete, they tend to remain attached and form caterpillar-like filaments. In fact, some of these cells can adopt different shapes ...

In laboratories, bacteria are often kept in pure culture ... The spatial structure that the different species adopt is increasingly recognized as a crucial element for them to function well together ...