A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

Two hundred years later, biology professor Manuel Ospina-Giraldo is still thinking about the Irish Potato Famine. Or, the ...

radiodurans' ability to resist radiation thousands of times stronger than the lethal dose for humans has earned the microbe the nickname ... a protective cell wall, efficient repair mechanisms ...

An 'extremophile' microbe nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium ... of different factors that come into play such as a protective cell wall, efficient repair mechanisms to fix radiation-induced DNA ...

Microfibrils are embedded in a hydrated network of other polysaccharides. The cell wall is assembled in place. Precursor components are synthesized inside the cell and then assembled by enzymes ...

A fundamental question in biology is how individual cells within a multicellular organism interact to coordinate diverse processes? We are interested in this question from molecular and evolutionary ...

Cell Host & Microbe is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press. The journal was first launched in March 2007 and focuses broadly on the study of microbes, with an emphasis on ...

A study published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe by Brazilian and American ... immune response in the layer that covers the inner wall of the organ, known as the epithelium, making it ...

Most are 0.2 μm - 2.0 μm. Outer layers of cell Cell membrane, surrounded by cell wall in plants and fungi. Cell membrane, surrounded by cell wall. Cell contents Cytoplasm, cell organelles ...

In pure water, the cell contents (the cytoplasm and vacuole) push against the cell wall and the cell becomes turgid . Fully turgid cells support the stems of non-woody plants. In a very ...