Light microscope images of E. coli cells in transmitted light (left) and reflected light that picks up the red fluorescence of a dye staining the cells' DNA (right). In normal cells (upper panel ...

“If you use a microscope and you look inside of a leaf, there’s an area called the stroma, and you can actually find the bacteria attached to that area.” The fact that E. coli can survive ...

Researchers in Fiji's informal settlements are using their own footsteps to detect the hidden pathogens in soil that ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell? Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes. Aa Aa Aa ...

The team used a high-powered microscope system to simulate intestinal ... in our gut that are often considered harmful - like E. coli and salmonella. They are kept in check by other bacteria ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The ...

As the student talks we see shots of her working on a microscope table. She continues; “My research looks at the regulation of gene expression in E. coli bacteria and we look at that at the ...

This colorized 2006 scanning electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows E. coli bacteria of the O157:H7 strain that produces a powerful toxin ...