Using a combination of fluorescent microscopy and cuttingedge cryoelectron tomography, researchers in the labs of Luke Chao and Tom Bernhardt in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have provided neverbeforeseen views of doublemembraned bacteria as they divide.

The work offers new insights into the division process and may aid in the fight against antibiotic resistance, since these drugs typically target bacteria as they divide, when the cell wall and membranes are weakest.

Led by postdoctoral research fellows Paula Navarro and Andrea Vettiger, the two groups made the discoveries possible by combining their expertise in bacterial cell division, bacterial genetics, and cuttingedge imaging.

Results were published Sept. 12 in Nature Microbiology.

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