Most bacteria reproduce by making carbon copies of themselves through a process called fission. While this might suggest that all bacteria must be alike, bacteria display staggering diversity ...

Passed onto offspring via infection of the egg, but not sperm, these bacteria have developed a range of reproduction-manipulating mechanisms that ensure their continued prevalence. Chief among these ...

Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on Earth; they ...

Yuval Gottlieb-Dror from the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rehovot, discovered that certain bacteria living inside ticks are essential for their survival and reproduction. The research ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce ... that a type of E. coli bacteria produces an enzyme which ...

They work either by killing bacteria or by stopping it from reproducing. These side effects may be uncomfortable, but they tend to pass quickly. Eating the right foods can help to prevent side ...

Some antibiotics break down the external layer of the bacteria. Some block the bacteria's reproduction so they die without multiplying and others stop the bacteria's internal processes and they do ...