Researchers show how the rod-shaped bacteria Bacillus subtilis maintains its precise diameter while growing end to end. The slender, rod-shaped Bacillus subtilis is one of the best-studied bacteria in ...

Likely in order to survive in the oral cavity, bacteria evolved to divide along their longitudinal axis without parting from one another. Environmental cell biologists and microbial geneticists have ...

US researchers have found a gut bacterium that may help people lose weight and enhance their metabolic health.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a rod-shaped pathogenic bacteria with tail-like propellers. This image was taken from an X 1000 optical microscopy. “When studying microbial interactions, research often ...

US researchers have found a gut bacterium that may help people lose weight and enhance their metabolic health. This comes amid several weight-loss injections and medications that have proved their ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- The slender, rod-shaped Bacillus subtilis is one of the best-studied bacteria in the world, a go-to system for exploring and understanding how bacteria grow, replicate, and divide ...