Background Continuous transformation and development of new detection tools for bacteria
has converted the laborious scientific work into smart apparatus in recent years. The journey …

FtsZ, a bacterial homolog of tubulin, is well established as forming the cytoskeletal
framework for the cytokinetic ring. Recent work has shown that purified FtsZ, in the absence …

The bacterial division apparatus catalyses the synthesis and remodelling of septal
peptidoglycan (sPG) to build the cell wall layer that fortifies the daughter cell poles …

The addition of heteroatoms to pristine carbon quantum dots (CQDs) change their structure
and optical properties. In this study, fluorine (F)-and chlorine (Cl)-doped CQDs are prepared …

Determining the growth patterns of single cells offers answers to some of the most elusive
questions in contemporary cell biology: how cell growth is regulated and how cell size …

We used a suspended microchannel resonator (SMR) combined with picoliter-scale
microfluidic control to measure buoyant mass and determine the'instantaneous' growth rates …

The size of a cell is determined by a combination of synthesis, self-assembly, incoming
matter and the balance of mechanical forces. Such processes operate at the single-cell …

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is an emerging field aimed at studying weakly scattering
and absorbing specimens (Popescu, 2011). The main challenge in generating intrinsic …

Highlights•Recent studies have revealed various ways that turgor regulates microbial
growth.•In Gram-positive rods, membrane tension transiently inhibits wall growth via …

Bacterial cytokinesis is accomplished by the essential 'divisome'machinery. The most widely
conserved divisome component, FtsZ, is a tubulin homolog that polymerizes into the 'FtsZ …