High-speed microscopy technique reveals dynamic E. coli membrane stiffness
Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller ...
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High-speed in-line force mapping unveils E. coli cell division dynamics
Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller ...
Scientists Re-Create the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...
How well could Earth life survive on exoplanets?
Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...
Using AI machine learning to map hidden molecular interactions in bacteria
A new study from Oregon Health & Science University has uncovered how small molecules within bacteria interact with proteins, ...
‘Very important step’: Chinese scientists turn E coli into a photosynthetic life form
A dangerous bacteria is being used by researchers to help create a range of bioproducts with no carbon footprint.
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Microbial cell factories may help get to the root of understudied plant molecules
A new tool could make it easier to study scarce plant molecules. Researchers have developed so-called microbial cell factories -- using E. coli and yeast -- to produce a special class of plant ...
Your phone is a breeding ground for fecal bacteria. This is how to keep it clean and prevent getting sick
“People's phones are out when urinating and defecating, exposing the phones to bacteria,” says Dr. Suraj Saggar, chief of ...
FDA finds little handwashing, dirty equipment at McDonald's supplier linked to E. coli outbreak
More than a hundred E. coli cases were linked to contaminated onions produced by Taylor Farms used in McDonald's burgers.
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Researchers discover link between protein aggregation and bacterial dormancy
Researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research revealed a mechanism involving protein aggregation that allows bacteria to enter a ...