The bacterium also has a kind of bolt gun that it uses to kill its prey. Like a pirate ship in search of a potential victim, Aureispira swiftly glides over solid surfaces towards its prey, such as ...
A start-up firm affiliated with Keio University developed a new food source made of a powdered form of a bacterium used for natto fermented soybeans. The bacterium can be mixed into bread and ...
a tendril snakes forth from one of the bacterium, harpooning a piece of DNA and carrying it back to its body. That appendage is called a pilus, and the process whereby the bacteria incorporates the ...