Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

A vital component in many research fields is the ability to measure bacterial growth for fermentation, antibiotic effectiveness, synthetic biology, and food safety. Estimating bacterial growth ...

Maximal growth rate is a basic parameter of microbial lifestyle that varies over several orders of magnitude, with doubling times ranging from a matter of minutes to multiple days. Growth rates are ...

New research shows that 'hacking' the communication channels between microbes in the mouth could boost levels of beneficial ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different “shutdown modes,” not ...

The research shows that antibiotic persistence is not a single biological phenomenon, but instead arises from two fundamentally different growth-arrest states, a discovery that helps resolve years of ...

A research team at the Hebrew University has shown that bacteria can survive antibiotic exposure via two distinct ...