Planctomycetes challenge our concept of the bacterial cell and of a prokaryote as a cell structure type, as well as our ideas about origins of the eukaryote nucleus. Planctomycetes Are Important ...

Antibiotics are a double-edged sword – they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the ...

The new molecules target a metabolic pathway that only occurs in bacterial cells, thus sparing human cells. The team ...

Under normal circumstances, a bacterial cell will reproduce by a form of cell ... James Watson and Francis Crick determined the three-dimensional structure of DNA. This discovery enabled ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms.

eg genes for antibiotic resistance Bacterial cell ? Compartment in cell where DNA is stored as chromosomes Controls activities of cell Animal cell, plant cell or fungal cell Cell structure Cell ...

to construct its own tail-like structure out of actin filaments. “If you slow down the leading ribosome, the ribosome after it goes and hits it . . . just like a pile-up in a freeway.” Some ...

With this strategy, he discovered over 400 bacterial proteins that contain a signature 3D histone structure called a histone fold ... As a small predatory cell, it invades a prey bacterium, expands in ...

Antibiotics are a double-edged sword—they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the Helmholtz ...

Yersinia bacteria use a membrane protein ... researchers can culture organoids as flat 2D sheets. This flat structure holds many advantages: the cells are easier to culture and examine, and ...