Sophisticated swarming: Bacteria support each other across generations
From University of Basel 30/11/23 When bacteria build communities, they cooperate and share nutrients across generations. Researchers at the University of Basel have been able to demonstrate this for the first time using a newly developed method. This innovative technique enables the tracking of gene expression during the development of bacterial communities over space and […]
Bacteria store memories and pass them on for generations
From University of Texas at Austin 24/11/23 Scientists have discovered that bacteria can create something like memories about when to form strategies that can cause dangerous infections in people, such as resistance to antibiotics and bacterial swarms when millions of bacteria come together on a single surface. The discovery — which has potential applications for […]