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Bacteria living around hydrothermal vents can help shape the minerals that form on the ocean floor, new research from Greece reveals.

The researchers turned to a familiar laboratory system involving E. coli, the rod-shaped bacterium found in the human gut, and T7 phage, which infects E. coli. They focused on phosphorylation, a rapid ...

A rod-shaped bacterium stays rod-shaped because its outer wall holds it that way. Change that wall’s chemistry, and the form changes too – which is why the wall became the original target of ...

Researchers have discovered how acids on the surface of bacteria give these microscopic organisms their characteristic "rod" shape-by keeping an enzyme at bay that would otherwise turn the cylindrical ...

Cornell researchers have discovered that dead bacteria may continue influencing the body long after being killed during an infection — a finding that could reshape how scientists understand immunity, ...

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Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.