“Once the label was incorporated, we figured we could put ‘flashlights’ on it, which would help us to visualize the cell fragments and begin to identify immunostimulatory environments.” No one had ...

Despite being genetically identical, bacteria can vary considerably in shape and size. Whether these variations affect ...

Imagine a bacterial cell—one of the multi-drug-resistant varieties that keep infectious disease experts up at night—blown ...

A trained neural network model processes a 3D axial stack of darkfield microscopy images, rapidly processing the 3D optical scattering information of bacterial cells to digitally stain label-free ...

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 ...

Pulianmackal, learned how to cultivate this bacterial species in the lab and fluorescently label five cargos, allowing the researchers to follow their movement in live cells through cell growth ...

Now, a new paper published in Science suggests that bacterial NO helps those cells survive in habitats that they share with antibiotic-producing microorganisms. Cells produce NO with the aid of ...

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 ...

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 ...