Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures.

This study reveals how probiotic bacteria directly influence brain cell function, highlighting gut-brain communication and potential therapeutic applications.

Moving forward, her team plans to model how the bacterial division ring contributes to building the wall that splits the cell into two. The study has been published in Nature Physics.

Multiple ParA/MinD ATPases coordinate the positioning of disparate cargos in a bacterial cell. Nature Communications, 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39019-x ...

The model can help predict the "sweet spot" between the two extremes, where bacteria maximize their diffusion by balancing the frequency of direction changes with the need to escape from corners.

Based in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the team found that the bacteria can manipulate a protein known as ATF6, which helps cells detect and respond to infection, to support its own growth ...

On a test run of their model, researchers found evidence that phages may increase gut bacteria’s sensitivity to antibiotics. Their results were published April 28 in the journal Cell Host and ...

These movements, or “positioning reactions”, can influence one another, giving a clue to how bacteria coordinate complex movements in the cell prior to its division.