IN dark-ground microscopy with the sun as light-source, motile bacteria, when swimming fast ... and hitherto they have been regarded as ‘‘flagella or motor-organs. Motility of bacteria ...

Combining experiments in microfluidic devices and computer simulation, this study provides a valuable analysis of the relevant parameters that determine the motility of (multicellular) magnetotactic ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers uncovered how sodium ions drive bacterial flagellar motors, revealing key ...

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 ...

Their study, published in Microbiological Research, reveals that bacteria can evolve by losing their flagella, the structures responsible for movement. The study was led by Prof. Wang Junfeng from ...

Conway's team turned to plants that were engineered to have heightened immune responses to a protein that makes up the thread-like appendages called flagella that allow bacteria to swim.

Delivering drugs to specific, hard-to-reach areas in the human body remains a challenge in drug development. Typically, drug ...

In this constantly transforming perspective, flagellum-beating patterns ... various stimuli and chemicals on the 3D swimming patterns of sperms, motile bacteria and other micro-organisms ...

Among these, many bacterial species have tail-like structures—called flagella—that spin around to propel themselves in fluids. These movements employ protein complexes known as the "flagellar ...

However, biological motors have existed for millions of years in microorganisms. Among these, many bacterial species have tail-like structures—called flagella—that spin around to propel themselves in ...

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