Discover the importance of antibiotics, bacterial cell walls, and resistance mechanisms in fighting bacterial infections effectively.

The structure and function of key prokaryotic cell structures ... circular molecule that contains all the genetic information necessary for the cell's functions and reproduction. Bacteria are ...

As one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in the U.S. unfolds in Kansas, UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in ... and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus ...

Bacterial cells differ fundamentally in their structure from animal and human cells. For example, bacteria have a rigid cell wall, whereas human cells are surrounded only by a simple membrane.

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 ...