Researchers have identified a new way to fight infections like Lyme disease and syphilis by disrupting the bacteria's "motor, ...

More information: Xian Xia et al, Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility ...

Thus, understanding the molecular mechanism of flagellar motility will be key for achieving this," remarks Tatsuro. Moreover, knowledge of flagellar motors could lead to innovative designs for ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

This is a differential medium used to determine whether an organism is equipped with flagella and thus capable of swimming away from a stab mark. The results of motility agar are often difficult to ...

This is real-time imaging of a flagellar polymorphic change under a fluorescent microscope. A normal filament was changed to a coiled filament at 0.9 sec, subsequently, the filament wound around ...

The OMU-led research team has been working since 1997 to clarify M. mobile's motility mechanisms. This time, with the help of Osaka University's cryo-electron microscopy equipment, the scientists ...

A research team has applied leading-edge atomic imaging and AI-driven modeling to create the most detailed 3D map yet of the ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.