A range of techniques can be used for the identification and classification of bacteria. However, traditional biochemical and sequence-based approaches can be labour-intensive and slow. In this ...

New research from Dartmouth College raises questions over how scientists should interpret observed groupings of bacteria. The study advises caution with the assumption that bacterial clusters are ...

Dartmouth study provides new insights into processes behind the evolution of microorganisms and describes what it means for existing bacterial classification approaches.

Research into freezing bacteria super-fast to gain a true-to-nature image of the internal and external structure has been carried out by Professor Ariane Briegel at Leiden University.

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they can contain pathogens and are highly resistant to treatment. Chemists ...

Tuberculosis is the world's leading infectious cause of death, killing more than one million people each year. When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new ...