Cells must integrate their growth, DNA replication and cell division cycles to ensure faithful inheritance of their genetic material. It was previously thought that, in bacteria, the growth ...

Caulobacter crescentus is a fascinating bacterium that has become a key model ... of key cell cycle regulators CtrA and GcrA in C. crescentus. CtrA is crucial for coordinating DNA replication ...

“If you impose a structure on it, which is this replication-driven cell cycle structure ... regions of the DNA are more tightly packaged than others, so this form of gene regulation might be strictly ...

This important study presents compelling observational data supporting a role for transcription and polysome accumulation in the separation of newly replicated bacterial chromosomes. The study is ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Recognition of DNA in Bacteria ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 222 No. 1 (January 1970), p. 88 doi:10.1038 ...

How cells respond to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage is not fully understood. This study uncovers a mechanism of mtDNA ...

Inside the human airway, a certain cell type reigns supreme: multiciliated cells, decorated with dozens of hair-like cilia all beating in tandem. These cells are responsible for clearing out foreign ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded DNA replication in real time. The scientists extracted DNA from E. coli bacteria ... scientific journal Cell. Footage courtesy of UC Davis.

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the ...

The new research focuses on a process called "conjugation," one of the main mechanisms for transferring DNA from one bacterium to another. During conjugation, one bacterial cell connects directly ...

an organism grows an organism becomes damaged and needs to produce new cells for repair organisms like bacteria reproduce ... of different stages of the cell cycle can be estimated using the ...