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Atomic imaging and AI offer new insights into motion of parasite behind sleeping sickness
Researchers applied leading-edge atomic imaging and AI-driven modeling to create the most detailed 3D map yet of the flagellum on Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness.
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Understanding bacterial motors may lead to more efficient nanomachine motors
Scientists have identified the FliG molecule in the flagellar layer, the ‘motor’ of bacteria, and revealed its role in the organism, potentially suggesting ways in which future engineers could build nanomachines with full control over their movements.
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Cholera-like bacteria may be crucial in development of new antibiotics
Researchers have produced a reconstructed version of the PomAB motor protein complex in a bacterium called Vibrio alginolyticus that resembles the cholera bacterium.