Bacteria are too small to be seen by the naked eye and yet are the most diverse group of organisms on Earth. The individual cell averages just one micrometer in size (for context, an average human ...

When a single bacterial cell divides into two during periods of rapid growth, it doesn't split in half once it reaches a ...

The structures damage the cell membrane of bacterial cells ... These needle-like pillars are just the right size to be deadly to bacteria, making the surfaces strongly antibacterial.

The magnetosomes are aligned in a chain-like fashion, which impart a magnetic dipole to the bacterial cell and allows the cells to "sense" Earth's geomagnetic field (Gorby et al. 1988).

That may be because bacterial histones are smaller ... As a small predatory cell, it invades a prey bacterium, expands in size, and divides into multiple small predators, continuing the cycle. The ...

The structures damage the cell membrane of bacterial cells ... These needle-like pillars are just the right size to be deadly to bacteria, making the surfaces strongly antibacterial.