Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple ...

D microscopy shows that the giant bacterium Thiovulum imperiosus squeezes its DNA into peripheral pouches, not a central mass ...

The term microbiology often implies the study of microscopic organisms that require a microscope to see, but humans can view some microbes with the naked eye. Generations of scientists puzzled over ...

Not all bacteria are created equal. Most are single-celled and tiny, a few ten-thousandths of a centimeter long. But bacteria of the Epulopiscium family are large enough to be seen with the naked eye ...