Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

Bacteria are classified into different groups depending on their shape. There are five distinct bacterial shapes: spherical, rod, spiral, comma, and corkscrew. Bacteria, just like any other living ...

Instead of growing, the bacteria work to repair the damage and change so they can better tolerate antibiotics. As this happens, they change shape, becoming thin and elongated.

Read the paper: A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome The authors ... a lasso peptide because of its molecular shape, is produced by a group of genes ...