In labs, bacterial colonies usually grow in streaks in petri dishes, but until now no one has known how the colonies organize themselves in more realistic three-dimensional (3-D) environments, such as ...

In nature, strains of bacteria usually grow in colonies, and together, they are tougher. The vast number of microbes in the world have to compete for resources, and the competition can be brutal.

In some respects, animals and amoebae are not that different. For instance, both are at risk of potentially deadly attacks by bacteria and have evolved ways to prevent them. Researchers at Baylor ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by Krishna Macha, Sushmita Sudarshan, Carina Gao, Oksana Sirenko, and Sheela Muley. Bacterial and yeast strains are central to microbiology, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A peer-reviewed study is raising alarms about the role our waste and wastewater systems play in spreading ...

A research team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson is developing a drug that works in combination with copper to kill bacteria, including those that cause MRSA, a type of staph ...

"It was totally unexpected that secreted CadA was important for amoebal colony formation on some type of bacteria, but not other," said first author Dr. Timothy Farinholt, who was a graduate student ...