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Some of the bacteria in our guts was passed down from a time before we were even human, it has been discovered. Bacteria in our gut helps to guide the early development of our intestines and train our ...

When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful ...

Gram staining is one way scientists can identify bacteria. Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus, appear blue or purple under a microscope when scientists apply a stain. Conversely, ...

A recent study published in Nature Microbiology examined the motility behavior of copiotrophic marine bacteria under starvation. The researchers found that some bacterial strains stop moving to ...