A basic aspect of the pending dispute is who first invented (to a satisfactory degree, under patent law) a CRISPR system that could work in eukaryotic cells. Recall from high school biology that ...

Discover the revolutionary implications of the endosymbiotic theory and the potential of nitroplasts in agriculture and ...

Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could come down to how ...

A recently granted patent (Publication Number: US11866747B2) discloses a novel mitochondria-targeting engineered meganuclease (MTEM) designed to bind and cleave specific recognition sequences within ...

Modern biology textbooks assert that only bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that is ...

In two recent papers, an international team of scientists describes the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell. The organelle is the fourth example in history of primary ...

Autophagy, a eukaryotic mechanism for breaking down cellular components, is a vital process in lytic organelles such as vacuoles in yeast and plants, and lysosomes in animals. Research has ...

Table 1 List of fas1genes from different mycobacteria that confer resistance to 5-Cl-PZA in M. smegmatis mc 2 155. Figure 1: 5-Cl-PZA and PZA inhibit Fasi in mycobacteria. Figure 2: PZA inhibits M ...

The eukaryotic cell is the basic unit of animals and plants. At the microscope, it looks highly structured and subdivided in many membrane-bound compartments. One essential component of each ...