Jon Chase: Bacteria are a type of microorganism, each made up of just one cell. Some bacteria are harmful and cause disease, and some are useful, like the one hundred trillion bacterial cells that ...

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

The work, which tested APOL3 on the membranes of Salmonella and other microbes, has been reported in Science. When individual cells mount their own defense against an infection it's called ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Nov. 24, 2010) --The bacterial cell is often thought of as a "bag of enzymes"—a single compartment with limited internal structure, a primitive cell cycle, and ...

How bacteria control their size Date: January 5, 2015 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: New work shows that bacteria (and probably other cells as well) don't double in mass ...

Multiple ParA/MinD ATPases coordinate the positioning of disparate cargos in a bacterial cell. Nature Communications , 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39019-x Cite This Page : ...

Long dismissed as featureless, disorganized sacks, bacteria are now revealing a multitude of elegant internal structures. Ewen Callaway investigates a new field in cell biology. Nearly a decade ...

In this simplified diagram of gram staining, bacterial cells are first treated with a purple dye called crystal violet. The dye gets into the cells’ peptidoglycan layer (gray), tinting it purple.