The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii splitting into multiple cells at once, a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria ...

Still from a time-lapse microscopy video of E. coli cells treated with semapimod in the presence of SYTOX Blue. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Since the 1970s, modern antibiotic ...

Hours before starving bacteria begin assembling into visible structures, a deep-learning system built at Rice University can already tell which colonies will succeed and which will fail. The tool, ...