Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

Planctomycetes challenge our concept of the bacterial cell and of a prokaryote as a cell structure type, as well as our ideas about origins of the eukaryote nucleus. Planctomycetes Are Important ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don’t stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the ...

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...

Audrey Proenca. Single-cell organisms like bacteria were considered "immortal" for a long time. Because bacteria divide into two equal parts and bacterial strains can continue on indefinitely ...

Eventually, a phage makes so many copies of itself that it will burst the bacterial cell it has infected. Scientists have known for a while that ... The handshakes involve a large, central protein ...

Scientists have developed a new drug that could help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a major threat to public health.

has been published in the journal Molecular Cell. These bacterial enzymes, referred to as ubiquitin clippases, split the ubiquitin molecule into two parts in such a way that the released fragment ...