In labs, bacterial colonies usually grow in streaks in petri dishes, but until now no one has known how the colonies organize themselves in more realistic three-dimensional (3-D) environments, such as ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers identified and quantified fungal and bacterial microbial colonies attached to face masks used in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...

Scientists at the MPI-DS have investigated how this motion interacts with the growth of the entire colony, which can be observed in a wide variety of cellular aggregates. Such growth happens when ...

New insights into how some bacteria survive antibiotics could lead to the development of novel treatment strategies. Scientists have demonstrated how some fast-growing bacteria can retreatment with ...

Efforts to fight disease-causing bacteria by harnessing their natural predators could be undermined when multiple species occupy the same space, according to a study by Dartmouth College researchers.

From a box of Cracker Jack to The Da Vinci Code, everybody enjoys deciphering secret messages. But biomedical engineers at Duke University have taken the decoder ring to place it's never been ...