In recent decades, the interdisciplinary field of life sciences has made enormous progress, particularly in researching the molecular architecture of life. For example, extensive details of the genetic blueprint of many organisms are now known. Nevertheless, in areas such as cellular biology, many questions about fundamental life processes remain unanswered. One of these fundamental questions is how exactly individual cells, and thus ultimately also complex organisms, derive their spatial structures from biochemical information, and pass on the associated information to their offspring in a stable manner. At Kiel University (CAU), the Microbial Biochemistry and Cell Biology working group led by Professor Marc Bramkamp tackles this question, among other topics. In their latest research, Bramkamp and his team were able to gain new insights into how microorganisms reproduce their genetic information, and thereby organise their growth and reproduction, based on the example of the bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum. Together with international colleagues, including from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Kiel research team published their new findings today in the renowned scientific journal Nature Communications.
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