Halloween seems like an appropriate time to let you know that zombies are real. Or at least zombie bacteria are, according to ...

Microbes — tiny organisms invisible to the naked eye — rarely live in isolation. They form dynamic communities that shape ecosystems in our bodies, soils, oceans, and industries. Despite their ...

Bacterial colonies are far more than simple "piles of cells." They are dynamic, multicellular-like systems characterized by intricate spatial organization, functional differentiation, and coordinated ...

Scientists at the MPI-DS have investigated how this motion interacts with the growth of the entire colony, which can be observed in a wide variety of cellular aggregates. Such growth happens when ...

Analyzing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique from Würzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods. Not all individuals in a population of ...

A recent University of California–Los Angeles study has uncovered bacteria hiding inside the most common type of kidney stone. The unexpected discovery challenges decades of scientific thinking about ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 6, SDG 13, SDG 14, and SDG 15. The study of bacterial systems through the lens of physics is a rapidly evolving field that ...

Under ideal conditions, bacterial cell proliferation is exponential, transforming an empty Petri dish into a lush “lawn” of growth. However, as a bacterial colony develops, “growing pains” are ...

The interaction between growth and the active migration of cells plays a crucial role in the spatial mixing of growing cell colonies. This connection was discovered by scientists from the Department ...