Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

Bacteria are different from you and me. Always the minimalists, they lack features that plant and animal cells usually can’t do without: a nucleus, special organelles, and an internal skeleton ...

How a bacterial cell recognizes its own DNA Date: April 13, 2015 Source: Weizmann Institute of Science Summary: It may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that bacteria have an immune system ...

Mitochondria have primarily been known as the energy-producing components of cells. But scientists are increasingly ...

Viruses vastly outnumber bacteria (SN: 1/11/14, p.18) and could skew the microbe-to-human cell ratio upwards, says Julie Segre, a geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in ...

Minicells protrude from microbial cells, and the Escherichia coli bacterium uses them to bundle damaged proteins that are collected from inside the bacterial cell. To learn more about how the ...

Bacterial cells can 'remember' brief, temporary changes to their bodies and immediate surroundings, a new study has found. And, although these changes are not encoded in the cell's genetics, the ...

February 15, 2006 (Vol. 26, No. 4) Defining the Steps Involved in Protein Isolation and Refolding to Provide High-Yield Bacterial cells are widely used for production of various therapeutic ...

All the bacteria living inside you would fill a half-gallon jug; there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells, according to Carolyn Bohach, a microbiologist at the ...

But this nesting-doll-like setup has another, more harmful effect: the bacteria secrete a deadly molecular syringe, 100 nanometers long, that latches onto the insect’s cells.