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Stories about: chemotaxis

Nanorods Steer Themselves The experiment involving tiny metal rods are the first non-biological entities to show a behavior similar to that of tiny organisms such as bacteria that propel themselves towards different areas by following a chemical signature. The process is called chemotaxis. This experiment could have potential applications fro... 6 November 2007 09:49 GMT Mini-Trucks the Size of Bacteria Vehicles can vary from the size of a train to that of a ...bacterium. A team at Emory University has created a novel way of controlling the movement of the bacterium Escherichia coli in a chemical environment, opening the opportunity for new enhanced drug delivery, environmental cleanup and synthetic biology. The res... 12 May 2007 04:32 GMT