Bacterial Cultures (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Bacterial Cultures

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To survive a changing supply of nutrients, bacteria developed strategies to adapt their metabolism. Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have now determined that these regulation mechanisms are based on a global control process that can be described in a single equation.

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Johannes Wiedersich / TUM

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