"Molecular Inch-Worm" Structure Of Walking-Pneumonia Bacterium, Unravelled by UGA Scientists

... Researchers at the University of Georgia, using glow-in-the-dark proteins and microcinematography, have helped unravel the development and function of a complex organelle in the bacterium that causes "walking pneumonia."The researchers have described in new, precise detail the unique cell extension that forms on one end of the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. [click link for full article] ...