This collaboration, between a bacterial biochemist and a condensed-matter physicist, use light to control the movement and arrangement of cyanobacteria, forming two- and three-dimensional nematic ...

Cyanobacteria with protein fibres seen through a microscope. The protein fibres are marked 'F'. We all know that we ought to eat less meat and cheese and dig into more plant-based foods. But whilst ...

Cyanobacteria are single-celled microbes that can photosynthesize, and they helped generate Earth's atmosphere to make complex life possible. Cyanobacteria still help to maintain life on Earth, and ...

Advances in electron cryotomography have provided new opportunities to visualize the internal 3D structures of a bacterium. An electron microscope equipped with Zernike phase-contrast optics produces ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Water is the world in which biomolecules drift and connect. Life chemistry is aqueous chemistry — ...

RIKEN researchers have, for the first time, isolated and stabilized the fragile phycobilisome–photosystem II megacomplex in cyanobacteria, revealing two main pathways for transferring light energy ...

Volunteers collecting a sample from the lake to examine under the microscope. Photo: CMC Despite the current administration’s efforts to roll back the Clean Water Act and dismantle the Environmental ...