UP to the present time, no X-ray investigations have been carried out on the molecular structure of chitin as present in plant cell-walls ... Distinct diagrams were obtained with this material ...

Primitive organelles, such as micro-compartments found in some bacteria, help organize cellular processes by concentrating specific enzymes and substrates needed for biochemical reactions. 9 ...

The wall installed at Muan International Airport ... Video footage showed the passenger jet slamming into the structure and exploding after landing at high speed without gear down and skidding ...

But filopodia can also wreak havoc: metastatic cancer cells use them to invade new regions of the body. Filopodia are composed of hexagonal bundles of proteins that give them structure and strength.

Shandong Key Laboratory of Healthy Food Resources Exploration and Creation, School of Food Sciences and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...

These messages, carved into cell walls, are one of the few tangible remnants of the lives lost or forever scarred within. They humanize the victims and preserve fragments of a history often ...

This means the Zorya system can directly fight off viruses without killing the bacterial cell," says Nicholas Taylor. "Using cryo-electron microscopy, we looked at the structure of the ZorAB complex ...

The bacterial cell wall is essential to cell viability and is a major target of antibiotics. Beyond the cell wall and the cell surface, bacteria secrete proteins and polysaccharides to enmesh ...