In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...
Scientists at Goethe University uncover how the oldest enzyme in cellular respiration functions – opening the door to potential CO₂ removal from exhaust emissions. Animals, plants, and many other livi ...
According to new findings from University of Michigan scientists, eating too much fat could seriously hobble your immune ...
Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More than ...
Chundawat is a bioengineer and expert on protein engineering and glycosciences, the study of complex carbohydrates such as cellulose. To make the cells fluorescent and detectable by the microscope, he ...
Bacteria have mostly been portrayed as villains that make us sick, but the Human Microbiome Project showed that we share our ...
A recently identified bacterial protein structure is contributing to the design of novel anticancer drug delivery systems.
Researchers discovered that targeting S. pyogenes metabolism with a pyruvate dehydrogenase inhibitor reduces tissue damage ...
FlowCam uses Flow Imaging Microscopy (FIM) to characterize particles in liquid biopharmaceutical formulations. There are ...
A team of scientists have elucidated an ancient mechanism of cellular respiration. To that end, they studied bacteria that feed on the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and turn them into acetic acid ...
A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...
A previously unknown protein in a family of bacteria found in soil and the human gut microbiome has been discovered—which ...