Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

It has been long been known that bacteria swim by rotating their tail-like structure called the flagellum. (See the swimming bacteria in the figure.) The rotating motion of the flagellum is powered by ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

One essential component of each eukaryotic cell is the cytoskeleton. Microtubules, tiny tubes consisting of a protein called tubulin, are part of this skeleton of cells. Cilia and flagella, which are ...