Once established in the lungs, the bacteria's thick cell ... label to Mycobacterium smegmatis, a related bacterium that does not cause disease and does not have the sugar MTX, they saw no ...

Organelles, whose bacterial predecessors possessed their own genetic material, have significantly reduced their genome, meaning that they have become increasingly dependent on the host cell over time.

Sequencing the genome of single bacterial cells has long been technically difficult due to the seemingly incorrigible bias in the gene amplification stage of the process, making it hard to produce ...

Thiomargarita magnifica is a titan of bacterial life ... magnifica is a prokaryote, which is a form of life with cells very different from our own. Prokaryotes are generally single-celled and have no ...

but it's not well-understood how those glycans help to defend the bacteria. One reason for that is that there hasn't been an easy way to label them inside cells. MIT chemists have now overcome ...