Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

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Figure 1: Diagram showing the process of generalized bacterial transduction. A) Bacteriophage binding and infection. B) Bacteriophage replication. C) Cell lysis and bacteriophage release. D) ...

In a study published June 4 in the Cell Press journal Biophysical Journal, researchers found that bacteria can speed up by using the fluid pockets shaped by neighboring yeast cells.

This diagram shows the three components found surrounding the innards of a gram-negative bacterial cell, including the outer membrane, cell wall and inner membrane. (Image credit: Jeff Dahl, CC BY ...

These steps include iron uptake by the bacterial cell, magnetosome vesicle formation within the bacteria, iron transport into the magnetosome vesicle, and protein-mediated Fe3O4 or Fe3S4 ...