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Fusobacteria, which are part of the oral microbiome, are suspected of playing a role in cancer progression. Scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) are working on ...

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

Although James Watson and Francis Crick determined the double-helical structure ... bacteria into S type. This meant that something about DNA allowed it to carry instructions from one cell to ...

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

The magnetosomes are aligned in a chain-like fashion, which impart a magnetic dipole to the bacterial cell and allows ... Siderophores: Structure and Function of Microbial Iron Transport Compounds.

Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell ... structure, resulting in elongation stalling—known as "translation arrest." Interestingly, translation arrest in bacterial ...