Metabolic reactions: Less is more in single-celled organisms

Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 07:50 in Biology & Nature

All single-celled organisms are not alike. Or are they? A Northwestern University study has found a surprising similarity among four quite different organisms. The simplest organism, a bacterium called H. pylori, uses the same number of biochemical reactions (around 300) as yeast, the largest, most complex organism of the group, when optimising growth...

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