The Bacterial Cell Wall The tough, inflexible envelope that surrounds a bacterium is a single giant molecule made up of amino acid and sugar units. Its formation is blocked by drugs such as penicillin ...

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Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

Rockefeller University researchers turned to the viral enzyme lysin that viruses use to break through the bacterial cell wall of a cell they’ve infected as they exit in large numbers. Lysin is ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

In one study I worked on, we showed that part of a bacterial cell wall, when injected into patients, could safely help ...

Antibiotics treat bacterial infections by either destroying cell walls or preventing reproduction. Some antibiotics may also have anti-inflammatory properties that can help other types of illnesses.

Compared to viruses, bacteria are larger and have a more sophisticated structure that includes a cytoplasm, membrane, cell wall, and genetic material. Because they reproduce via binary fission ...

The antibiotic teixobactin—developed a decade ago by Northeastern University professors Kim Lewis and Slava Epstein in ...

Imagine a world where bacteria, typically feared for causing disease, are turned into powerful weapons against cancer. That's ...

Hajun Kim, Taejoon Kwon, and Joo Hun Kang—from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST has unveiled a novel ...