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cm0002@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Bacteria in polymers create cable-like structures that grow into living gels

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Bacteria in polymers create cable-like structures that grow into living gels

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cm0002@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other, building a kind of "living Jell-O."
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    They form unions?

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