{
  "id": 16901812,
  "title": "Out-of-balance growth enables cost-free synthesis of the flagellum and other proteins in a single bacterium",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/out-of-balance-growth-enables-cost-free-synthesis-of-the-flagellum",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "eLife",
    "slug": "elife",
    "url": "https://elifesciences.org/articles/110747"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The cost of expressing unnecessary genes on growth has been explained at the population level through balanced growth assumptions. However, due to the high degree of stochasticity in growth and gene regulation, it remains unclear how classical growth laws derived from bulk measurements manifest at the level of individual cells. For example, flagellar gene expression, one of the most…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}