During E. coli cell division, the researchers observed increased mechanical stiffening of the cell division site. The researchers hypothesize this stiffening could be due to localized membrane tension ...

Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller features, and electron microscopy resolves small structures, but samples ...

Light microscope images of E. coli cells in transmitted light (left) and reflected light that picks up the red fluorescence of a dye staining the cells' DNA (right). In normal cells (upper panel ...

In E. coli, the presence of certain group VIIIb ... of the metal in the culture medium causes an inhibition of the cell division process. The bacteria form long filaments, up to 300 times the ...

Christian Ganser, assistant professor, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS) in the NINS, Okazaki, Japan During E. coli cell division, the researchers observed increased ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell? Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes. Aa Aa Aa ...

During E. coli cell division, the researchers observed increased mechanical stiffening of the cell division site. The researchers hypothesize this stiffening could be due to localized membrane ...