New building blocks of cell communication: How an invisible 'cap' could control electrical synapses

When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical ...
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If You Stacked Every Bacterium On Earth, They’d Stretch Billions Of Light-Years Into Space

Bacteria rarely feel impressive in everyday life, but when you zoom in, all the way in, they dominate Earth in ways that are ...
IEEE

An Integrated Approach to Bacteria Structure Detection using Frangi-Thresholding Segmentation and its Impact on Analysis

Abstract: Molecular characterization, classification, and other analytical tasks in microbiology require accurate segmentation of bacteria structures in microscopic images. Although bacterial shapes ...
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Phage Engineering: Characterizing Bacteriophages for Medical and Agricultural Applications

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target only bacterial cells, they hold promise as an alternative to antibiotics, ...