The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...
Next-generation technology has helped solve a 30-year mystery of how Legionnaires' disease—a severe form of pneumonia—works, ...
Biologists from ETH Zurich have discovered speargun- like molecular injection systems in two types of bacteria and have described their structure for the first time. The special nanomachines are used ...
Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...
The Yale labs of Craig Roy and Jun Liu have harnessed the power of cryo-EM to solve a 30-year mystery of how the Legionella bacteria works. The findings represent the next steps in the search for new ...
Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...
PHILADELPHIA - By combining two techniques, an international team of scientists led by researchers at The Wistar Institute has derived the "quasi-atomic" structure of a common bacteriophage, a type of ...
The history of life stretches back untold eons. Today, there is a staggering array of organisms on Earth, with more species being discovered every year. The complexity of life, from the smallest ...