• A Shut­tle Ser­vice for Phos­phate

    by Christoph — It's amaz­ing, again and again, to see elec­tron mi­cro­scopic im­ages of or­derly chains of elec­tron-dense, mem­brane-en­closed mag­netite crys­tals within bac­te­r­ial cells that turn their car­ri­ers into tiny com­pass nee­dles. So, it's no sur­prise that here at STC, Elio, Gemma, and Daniel had been at­tracted by mag­ne­to­tac­tic bac­te­ria (MTBs) ear­lier. Now we teamed up with Vivi­enne Bail­lie Ger­rit­sen from 'Pro­tein Spot­light'...