In a groundbreaking study, researcher Kostas Konstantinidis has reshaped our understanding of microbial life, challenging the long-standing belief that bacteria do not form distinct species. For years ...

Bacteria reproduce in a number of different ways. Some of the more unusual methods include budding and baeocyte formation. The most common method, however, is binary fission - essentially splitting ...

As common as they are, bacteria like the E. coli shown above, have individual genetic differences forged by horizontal gene transfer during reproduction Wikimedia Commons Bacteria are as unique as ...