A European team is investigating the role of the bacterial cell wall and the cytoskeleton in mediating cell shape. Results are expected to have broader implications for cell biology.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 4, 2012
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Our planet was revolving on its axis, turning night into day every 24 hours, for 4.5 billion years - long before any form of life existed here. About a billion years later, the very first simple bacterial cells came into ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 2, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Over millions of years, biological organisms – from the chameleon and cuttlefish to the octopus and squid – have developed color-changing abilities for adaptive concealment (e.g., camouflage) and communication ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown how to synthesize in the laboratory an important set of natural compounds known as terpenes. The largest class of chemicals made by living organisms, terpenes ...
Biochemistry
Sep 24, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Synthetic biology combines science and engineering in the pursuit of two general goals: to design and construct new biological parts, devices, and systems not found in nature; and redesign existing, natural biological ...
There are more than 400,000 species of beetles and only two species of the tuatara, a reptile cousin of snakes and lizards that lives in New Zealand. Crocodiles and alligators, while nearly 250 million years old, have diversified ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 28, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A long-standing mystery in cell biology may be closer to a solution thanks to measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and France's Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), where ...
General Physics
Aug 9, 2012
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Just as users of Google Earth can zoom in from space to a view of their own backyard, researchers can now navigate biological tissues from a whole embryo down to its subcellular structures thanks to recent advances in electron ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 6, 2012
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Natural biological tissues are often hierarchically structured, and these structures appear to correlate strongly with tissue properties and functionalities. Finding out how a tissue self-assembles from cellular proteins ...
Materials Science
Jul 26, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A simple new improvement to an essential microscope component could greatly improve imaging for researchers who study the very small, from cells to computer chips.
Nanophysics
Jul 6, 2012
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