Bacteria at the crossroads (IMAGE)

McGill University

Bacteria at the crossroads

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By observing 5 different species of bacteria moving through a variety of microfluidic channels, the researchers discovered that bacteria navigated through the spaces not based on their own sizes or proportions, as the researchers had imagined, but instead depending on the kinds of spaces they were navigating through.

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McGill University

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