Light and electron ... other bacteria. HS-iFM allows researchers to measure both high resolution topography and membrane mechanical properties. During division of a living E. coli cell, the ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

The membrane protein Vipp1, known from the photosynthetic apparatus of plants, algae, and bacteria, can form various structures that could serve as tools to stabilize the cell membrane and ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

Researchers at Pitt have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage–phage for short–that has allowed them to ...

An electron microscopy images of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that featured on the covers of the 2022 edition of The ISME Journal. The image ...

Researchers suggest the bacteria could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, acting as sensors to help farmers ...

Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...

Cancer cells splitting. A blood clot. And human sperm cells on the surface of an egg. But what about a transmission electron microscope? The difference with a transmission electron microscope is ...

Cells require ATP to power vital reactions ... University of Marburg—used a sophisticated method known as cryo-electron microscopy, as part of which the purified Rnf complex of the ...