Bacterial cell division requires the coordination of chromosome replication with cell growth and division but how these processes are coordinated in mycobacteria is largely unexplored. Santi et al ...

How bacteria control their cell cycle Date: December 31, 2019 Source: University of Basel Summary: Researchers have demonstrated how bacteria coordinate cell division with the replication of their ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

In E. coli, when conditions are good, a single bacterial cell can divide every 25 minutes. But the process of replicating DNA takes longer -- around 40 minutes.

During the replication of the bacterial chromosome, genes close to the replication start point (red) exist in multiple copies, while genes close to the endpoint do not (blue). At faster growth ...

Bacterial cell walls, antibiotics and the origins of life Published: October 3, 2016 11 ... the creation of the first cells, with replication-enabling enzymes inside ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Medical schools must make microbiology a prerequisite — to prepare students not just for school but for practicing medicine.

The second law of thermodynamics states that all closed systems tend towards disorder over time and maintain order through the expenditure of energy. In most developing organisms, scientists assumed ...

A T-cell line was engineered to express Cas9 (a bacterial DNA-cleaving enzyme) and a CRISPR RNA, which guides Cas9 to a specific location in the human genome.

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. While sequencing DNA from a tiny ...