Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. “I was quite shocked, truly,” said ...

In some images, the phage's DNA is plainly visible inside the capsid, in others, it has made its way through the cell wall of the bacteria. Between these two steps, "there are some subtle differences, ...

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...