The last few decades have seen an alarming rise in fungal infections, which currently
represent a global health threat. Despite extensive research towards the development of …

PHA, a family of natural biopolymers aiming to replace non-degradable plastics for short-
term usages, has been developed to include various structures such as short-chain-length …

Covering: up to early 2011 Curcumin (diferuloylmethane), the active ingredient in turmeric
(Curcuma longa), is a highly pleiotropic molecule with anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant …

Bacterial cell division is orchestrated by a tubulin homologue, FtsZ, which polymerizes to
form a ring-like structure that is both a scaffold for the assembly of the bacterial cytokinetic …

Why do bacteria have shape? Is morphology valuable or just a trivial secondary
characteristic? Why should bacteria have one shape instead of another? Three broad …

Unicellular marine algae have promise for providing sustainable and scalable biofuel
feedstocks, although no single species has emerged as a preferred organism. Moreover …

During the life cycle of the filamentous bacteria Streptomyces, morphological differentiation
is closely integrated with fundamental growth and cell-cycle processes, as well as with truly …

Spore formation in bacteria poses a number of biological problems of fundamental
significance. Asymmetric cell division at the onset of sporulation is a powerful model for …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is the aetiological agent of tuberculosis, owes much of its
success as a pathogen to its unique cell wall and unusual mechanism of growth, which …

The d-enantiomers of amino acids have been thought to have relatively minor functions in
biological processes. While l-amino acids clearly predominate in nature, d-amino acids are …