Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Slow-growing bacteria respond more sensitively to their environment. Story by Heike Sacher • 11m. R esearchers led by Professor Erik van Nimwegen at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, ...

Not all bacteria grow the same way, even when they are closely related. In Caulobacter crescentus (left panel), the cell elongates from its center ...

At ETH Zurich, scientists from many different fields are working on something that seems straight out of science fiction.

"We've discovered that when many bacteria grow in fluids containing spaghetti-like molecules called polymers, such as mucus in the lungs, they form cable-like structures that intertwine like ...

Slow-growing bacteria respond more sensitively to their environment. University of Basel. Journal Science Advances DOI 10.1126/sciadv.adu9279. Keywords /Life sciences/ Microbiology ...