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Ostracod ovarium with endosymbiotic bacteria (Cardinium) in magenta. Ostracods, sometimes called seed shrimp, are nearly microscopic, aquatic organisms, inhabiting all types of marine and freshwater ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a groundbreaking study, researcher Kostas Konstantinidis has reshaped our understanding of microbial life, challenging the long ...

The microbial ecosystem nesting in your mouth is giving scientists a rare tool to learn about how bacteria multiply. One of the most common bacteria living in your dental plaque, a filamentous ...

The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii splitting into multiple cells at once, a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Shelbi Russell studies to better understand the relationship between this bacteria and its insect hosts, with implications for the control of human ...

Phages can sense bacterial DNA damage, which triggers them to replicate and jump ship. Viruses may be ‘watching’ you – some microbes lie in wait until their hosts unintentionally give them the signal ...

Sperm and egg cells, or gametes, are unusual. Egg cells are some of the largest cell types, and sperm are some of the smallest. In humans, these haploid cells come together to form diploid cells. It's ...

A study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, among others, presents the theory that egg-sperm fusion, a crucial feature of sexual reproduction in plants and animals, may have originated from an ...