New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

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 ...

Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to their unique genetic ... "This may be fundamentally different from sexual reproduction in animals, plants, fungi, and non-bacterial organisms ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, they make so many copies of themselves that the bacteria burst.

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 ...

Yuval Gottlieb-Dror from the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rehovot, discovered that certain bacteria living inside ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules enter.

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 ...

They work by killing bacteria or preventing their reproduction, and may be synthesized chemically or by naturally-occurring or engineered organisms. Antibiotics show limited effectiveness against ...