The non-descript, pill-shaped cell is why we understand fundamental life processes (think DNA replication and transcription).

Electron microscopy images reveal crucial structures and mechanisms within the molecular machinery that certain bacteria use ...

Protein translocation is an essential, nano-scale dynamic process that facilitates the movement of proteins across cellular ...

When speaking of motors, most people think of those powering vehicles and human machinery. However, biological motors have ...

We also have over 60 principal investigators specialising in Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Population Sciences research and translational technologies who contribute to teaching and third year ...

97% of all the water on Earth, and 99% of the habitable space on this planet, is in the ocean’ (source: NASA). Marine biology is the interdisciplinary study of life in the ocean. At the present time, ...

The epigenetic changes induced by the translocated gut bacteria generate "trained" immune cells primed to respond more efficiently to future infections. However, this same ability to amplify the ...

Every living organism falls into one of two groups: eukaryotes or prokaryotes, with cellular structure determining ... and translation occurs in the cell’s cytoplasm. Prokaryotes can be split into two ...

2013). MVs play important roles in microbial interactions, as they transfer their contents to other microbial cells, even over long distances. Several previous studies have shown that MVs are involved ...

Antibiotics have natural functions, mostly involving cell-to-cell signaling networks ... resistance implies expanding our knowledge on multi-level population biology of bacteria. Natural antibiotic ...