Viewed under the microscope, staphylococci can appear in 'grape-like' clusters. It is this morphological characteristic of these Gram-positive cocci that has given rise to their name; staphyle being ...

Red fluorescent cell division protein FtsZ assembles so-called Z-ring in the center of the cell. The reprint in connection with the news is free of charge, the indicated author of the picture must be ...

Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to ...