Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...

Shandong Key Laboratory of Healthy Food Resources Exploration and Creation, School of Food Sciences and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of ...

These messages, carved into cell walls, are one of the few tangible remnants of the lives lost or forever scarred within. They humanize the victims and preserve fragments of a history often ...

For example, bacteria have a rigid cell wall, whereas human cells are surrounded only by a simple membrane. If a pharmaceutical agent targets cell wall construction, only bacterial cells are affected.

The bacterial cell wall is essential to cell viability and is a major target of antibiotics. Beyond the cell wall and the cell surface, bacteria secrete proteins and polysaccharides to enmesh ...

Transcription occurs in the nucleus, producing mRNA. The mRNA then exits the nucleus, and translation occurs in the cell’s cytoplasm. Prokaryotes can be split into two domains, bacteria and archaea, ...