Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to the new ...

Biological motors, which aid microorganism movement in fluids, are composed of two components—the rotor and stators. Despite ...

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural ...

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural changes in the botulinum ...

This important study presents compelling observational data supporting a role for transcription and polysome accumulation in the separation of newly replicated bacterial chromosomes. The study is ...

antimicrobial resistance and bacterial adaptation, using a combination of structural biology and high-throughput biochemistry. Madeline is a Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division of the Medical ...

Primitive organelles, such as micro-compartments found in some bacteria, help organize cellular processes ... Table 1 below provides an overview of the key features of a prokaryotic cell: Table 1. The ...

This is reminiscent of the way that co-regulated bacterial ... hungry organelles, and the cost of producing these proteins is “quite tremendous”, he says. “Why would a cell translate junk ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus ... recently published in the Journal of Cell Biology has shown that Rickettsia ...