Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model ...

There are technically five classes of bacteria, with each group based on their shape: rod (bacilli) corkscrew (spirochaetes) comma (vibrios) spiral (spirilla) spherical (cocci) Bacteria are also ...

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

Bacteria have many methods of adapting to resist antibiotics, but a new class of spiral polypeptides targets one thing no bacterium can live without: an outer membrane. The polypeptides act as ...

The spiral-shaped bacteria Helicobacter pylori are common ... the team placed a model of the bacteria in a high-viscosity polymer gel, an example of what's called a yield-stress fluid.

In a daily dose of "ick", the Air Force's 96th Medical Group says their lab was one of the first to spot a rare, spiral ... the type of bacteria, are only visible if the blood sample is drawn ...

The peat sample used as the isolation source of bacteria described in this study ... used to examine the environmental distribution of spiral-shaped methanotrophs (Table 1). Table 1 Location ...

A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical ... The new species’ ridges are arranged in a spiral-like pattern on the surface of the filament, and their overall shape is more angular ...