Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

FtsZ is required for the formation of a ring structure, known as the Z ring, at the site of cell or organelle division. Contraction of the Z ring leads to fission of the cell or organelle. The FtsZ ...

Internet retail giant Amazon is making a big push into the neighbourhood watch world and now it even wants to report on local crime itself. This is what is indicated by a recent Amazon job listing, ...

A previously unknown mechanism of active matter self-organization essential for bacterial cell division follows the motto 'dying to align': Misaligned filaments 'die' spontaneously to form a ring ...

The reproduction mode of uncultivable microorganisms deserves investigation as it can largely diverge from conventional transverse binary fission. Here, we show that the rod-shaped ...

How bacterial cells divide in two is not fully understood. Physicists now show that, at high concentrations, a crucial protein can assemble into ring-shaped filaments that constrict the cell, giving ...