A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

Microbes are masters of survival, evolving ingenious strategies to capture energy from their surroundings. For decades, ...

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Sub-membrane microtubule array, known to prevent excessive glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, depends on kinesin-1 KIF5B, which moves microtubules to both generate and remodel this array, ...