A long series of experiments, beginning in 1956 and ending around 1980, established an outline of cell wall structure and demonstrated that penicillin inhibited one of the terminal steps in its ...

Bacterial cells close bacterial cell A microscopic individual cell of a bacterium. have a more simple structure compared to animal, plant and fungal cells and are usually much smaller.

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables ...

Biofilm, a slimy bacterial layer that clings to surfaces, makes infections harder to treat when they form protective shields ...

Yersinia bacteria use a membrane protein called ... The top and bottom of a cell remain distinctly separate, as in a real organ. Intestinal cells, for example, have two distinct sides.