But scientists don't understand a fundamental process within bacteria cells: how they organize themselves before division. Driving vs. surfing When cells divide the cell splits into two "daughter ...

The findings provide insight into a previously unknown survival strategy of bacteria and enable the researchers to draw key conclusions about cell aging processes. Many bacteria -- including ...

There are few relationships in nature more intimate than those between cells and the symbiotic bacteria, or endosymbionts, that live inside them. In these partnerships, a host cell typically provides ...

Project title: “Evolution of Polar Cell Wall Growth Across Bacterial Clades” What’s the idea?

Now, researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that bacteria do more than just work together. Bacterial cells from different species can combine into unique hybrid cells by fusing ...

Bacteria are single-celled organisms and the cell wall that surrounds their plasma membrane, is made from a polymer (rather like a mesh) of amino acids and sugars. This wall is a crucial structure ...

In particular, there are two fundamental problems: What resources can you draw on to survive and grow and how do ... researchers working with Frank Schreiber have shown that individual cells in ...