In short, while bacteria may not have “sex lives” in the way humans do, their frequent DNA exchanges play a crucial role in keeping their species distinct and thriving. This discovery opens up ...

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 ...

Bacteria reproduce by cloning themselves through binary fission - a kind of asexual reproduction. In the right conditions, they can reproduce very quickly. Some species can replicate themselves in ...

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

Thus, over time, asexual reproduction in bacteria can lead to a population of hundreds of thousands of cells, all of which are genetically identical to a lone original parent cell. Given their ...

However, not all organisms reproduce sexually: asexual reproduction is common among single-cell organisms such as bacteria. The key difference for asexual reproduction is that offspring are ...

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 ...

While both are microscopic and can cause infections, they differ significantly in structure, reproduction, and behavior. Bacteria are single-celled living organisms capable of thriving ...

but they also demonstrated that changing some of the machinery's components can accelerate nanowire reproduction and bacterial growth. This is an important next step in engineering bacteria to ...