Recent developments in synthetic biology may bring the bottom-up generation of a synthetic
cell within reach. A key feature of a living synthetic cell is a functional cell cycle, in which …

Bacterial physiology is a branch of biology that aims to understand overarching principles of
cellular reproduction. Many important issues in bacterial physiology are inherently …

Evolutionarily divergent bacteria share a common phenomenological strategy for cell-size
homeostasis under steady-state conditions. In the presence of inherent physiological …

Protein concentrations are set by a complex interplay between gene-specific regulatory
processes and systemic factors, including cell volume and shared gene expression …

Many cellular activities in bacteria are organized according to their growth rate. The notion
that ppGpp measures the cell's growth rate is well accepted in the field of bacterial …

Cell shape matters across the kingdoms of life, and cells have the remarkable capacity to
define and maintain specific shapes and sizes. But how are the shapes of micron-sized cells …

It is remarkable how robustly a bacterial species can maintain its preferred size. This
capacity is intimately related to control of the cell cycle: cell size and growth rate determine …

To examine how bacteria achieve robust cell proliferation across diverse conditions, we
developed a method that quantifies 77 cell morphological, cell cycle, and growth …

An immediately observable feature of bacteria is that cell size and shape are remarkably
constant and characteristic for a given species in a particular condition, but vary …

Bacteria have evolved to develop multiple strategies for antibiotic resistance by effectively
reducing intracellular antibiotic concentrations or antibiotic binding affinities, but the role of …