matruchotii that might drive its strange growth and division is that it lacks a flagellum; the whip-like appendage other ...

1988). In addition to magnetosomes and magnetic nanoparticles, magnetotactic bacteria also have a flagellum, which they use for mobility. Magnetotactic bacteria are prokaryotic microorganisms ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The ...

Bacteria with flagella, or spinning tails, can move up to a hundred times their body length in a second—a large fish can only move about ten times its body length in a second. The strongest ...

They grew the plant in low-iron and high-iron growth substrate (soil), then added fragments of flagella (little tails ...

“These legions of nanorobotic agents were actually composed of more than 100 million flagellated bacteria – and therefore self-propelled – and loaded with drugs that moved by taking the most ...

Good science anticipates the shortcomings of human intuition; it expects that the concepts so useful for interpreting the world around us, at the familiar human scale, may well prove unsuitable ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — Scientists were recently surprised to find that the natural community of zooplankton -- tiny, aquatic animals known to graze on bacteria -- present in freshwater and saltwater do ...

The projections on bacteria are known as pili or flagella that help them attach to the host and move respectively. Viruses are much tinier than bacteria. The largest virus is still smaller than ...

Here, we develop a two-dimensional (2-D) self-assembled rotor, powered by bacterial flagella. At a water–air interface, the average direction of rotation of a rotor is fixed. When the chiral rotor is ...

The bacterium Clostridioides difficile is named “difficult” for a reason. Originally, it was hard to grow in the lab, and, ...

Researchers from Tampere University in Finland and Anhui Jianzhu University in China have made a significant breakthrough in ...