Bacteria Stab Amoebae with Micro-Daggers
Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 14:02
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Vienna have discovered a type of bacteria that uses tiny daggers to prevent itself from being eaten by amoebae. The scientists also resolved the three-dimensional structure of the mechanism that allows the micro-daggers to be shot quickly.