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

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A 3D rendering captured using a confocal microscope shows the ... University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle ...

The infectious agent may be bacteria, like those that cause sinus infections. Viruses may cause sinus infections, but they ...

Biological motors, which aid microorganism movement in fluids, are composed of two components -- the rotor and stators. Despite much research, the exact molecular mechanism underlying stator function ...

The researchers unlocked the mystery using an unusual invention – a rotating microscope ... mucus production, such as ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms ... observed the specimens under a microscope to watch how the bacterial ...

Working with mucus samples provided by colleagues at MIT, Gonzalez La Corte grew E. coli bacteria (commonly used in laboratory studies) in regular liquid and in cystic fibrosis-like samples and then ...