Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals ...

In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

Developed through research at ETH Zurich and presented at the Canada Pavilion as part of the 19th International Architecture ...

New research shows that harmful E. coli bacteria in the gut can make the amoeba parasite Entamoeba histolytica more mobile ...

Archaea differ from bacteria in important ways ... never have progressed so far without this interdisciplinary approach,” stated Pilhofer. Could the cytoskeleton – the structural framework inside ...

Using the new RNA origami technique, they succeeded in producing nanotubes that fold into cytoskeleton-like structures. The cytoskeleton is an essential structural component in cells that gives them ...

Remarkable are the extensive actin cytoskeleton filaments (orange ... All life forms on Earth are divided into three major domains: eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea. Eukaryotes include the groups of ...

Most current models assume that archaea and bacteria played a central role ... Asgard archaea have a complex cell shape with an extensive cytoskeleton The remarkable success of the Viennese ...