Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...

To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant ... It is usually drawn to show a single cell, eg of a single cheek cell or onion cell.

Researchers suggest the bacteria could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, acting as sensors to help farmers ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum ... But sometimes it has a hard time vacuuming up the swimming bacteria and microscopic algae it eats ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...