bacteria

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If bacteria stop growing, the antibiotic in that tube is effective.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

Scientists at TU Wien, working with data storage company Cerabyte, produced a QR code measuring just 1.98 square micrometers, which is smaller than most bacteria.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

The first analysis of bacteria grown from one infected patient was published this week.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

"This fundamentally changes our view of commensal bacteria," says Prof. Pascal Falter-Braun, Director of the Institute for Network Biology at Helmholtz Munich and corresponding author of the study.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

If my organelles are really symbiotic bacteria, colonizing me, what’s to prevent them from catching a virus, or if they have such a thing as lysogeny, from conveying a phage to other organelles?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas