Tucker Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction, ...

Unlike humans and other animals, single-celled organisms, such as bacteria and some fungi, can undergo a process called binary fission to reproduce, meaning that they duplicate their DNA and then ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

binary fission stock videos & royalty-free footage A realistic animation ... with a cell starting to divide into two copies (mitosis), a parasitic worm, and a colony of wriggling bacteria. Amoeba.

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...

If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a brushing, you've encountered biofilm -- a slimy bacterial layer that clings to surfaces. In medical settings, biofilms make infections harder to ...