Category Archives: Bacterial cell division

Post-publication review and PLOS’ experiment with the Synthetic Biology Collection

Posted on 28/10/2016 by Chaitanya

The iGEM 2015 synthetic biology contest was an important one for us. It marked our first attempt at putting together a project from IISER Pune. But beyond the novelty for us, many things were different this time around (#igem2015). First … Continue reading →

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Micron-Scale Biological Devices

Posted on 25/07/2016 by Chaitanya

The advent of micro-fluidics has been a boon to research in biology and medicine. Already many such devices exist in the commercial domain reducing what were a plethora of flasks, transfer processes and reactions at the macroscopic scale (even with … Continue reading →

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The new biologists fashion: Bacterial Physiology- Bringing back the old stuff

Posted on 27/11/2015 by Chaitanya

The “post-antibiotic era” announced by the WHO, which was an update from April-2015 of an older report [1], suggests the need to understand bacteria is urgent as it ever was. We have been sailing the winds of Fleming from his … Continue reading →

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Bacterial cell division

Posted on 25/11/2015 by Chaitanya

The heat-stable protein HU was isolated first by Josette Rouviere-Yaniv and Gros in 1975 in a study where they systematically screened using an DNA-binding affinity-purification method for heat-stable proteins from E. coli cell extracts (1). This protein has been implicated … Continue reading →

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