When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An E. coli colony imaged under an electron microscope. The infectious bacteria could have a ...

In a joint effort with various international institutions, researchers from the University of Innsbruck have described the movement patterns of the bacterium Escherichia coli. To do so, they used an ...

Light microscope images of E. coli cells in transmitted light (left) and reflected light that picks up the red fluorescence of a dye staining the cells' DNA (right). In normal cells (upper panel), the ...