Researchers have discovered a bacterium visible to the naked eye, challenging prevailing notions about the size of bacteria, most of which only can be seen when using a microscope. The ...

When he put the dental plaque under a primitive microscope, he was astonished ... Dr. Date said that there may be more giant bacteria waiting to be found, perhaps even bigger than Thiomargarita ...

Volland was able to visualize and observe the giant cells in 3D with ... and transmission electron microscopy, according to a news release. Unlike most bacteria, which have genetic material ...

Using various microscopy techniques ... Characterizing the Giant Bacterium Volland got involved with the giant Thiomargarita bacteria when he returned to the Gros lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

Thiomargarita magnifica, the largest bacteria known to science ... couldn’t be seen under a regular microscope. But this mystery organism was indeed a giant virus, and it shook the field ...

magnifica is about 50 times the size of other giant bacteria and about ... showed that the organisms were actually bacteria. A closer look under the microscope revealed the cells’ DNA-containing ...

We usually think of bacteria as organisms so small they can be seen only through a microscope. But scientists discovered a giant white bacterium lurking on rotting leaves in the brackish waters of ...

A team of scientists discovered a macroscopic species of bacterium living in the waters off Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, shifting the scales of how big we thought bacteria could be. The newly ...

Even compared to the smallest bacteria ... could be seen under a light microscope, which is impossible for other regular-sized viruses. Since then, several more giant viruses have been discovered ...

The lab conducted some microscopy studies over the next ... Volland got involved with the giant Thiomargarita bacteria when he returned to the Gros lab as a postdoctoral fellow.