A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...
In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...
This trick allows the bacteria to make themselves at home in the host cell and avoid falling prey to the immune system. Working together with the University of Cologne structural biologists led by ...
One of life's many mysteries is how it ended up choosing only a set of 20 amino acids to build proteins for its wide catalog of organisms, from single-celled bacteria to behemoth whales. From a ...
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Scientists finally cracked how bacteria's spinning motor actually works
Mike Manson has spent 50 years at Texas A&M studying the bacterial flagellar motor - a molecular machine that spins hundreds ...
New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of cells. By systematically identifying thousands of rapidly evolving ...
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