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Biophysics

Learning physics from migrating bacteria

27 Jan 2021 Rojin Jafari 
Fruiting bodies
Droplet-like fruiting bodies of the bacterium M. xanthus. Each fruiting body contains hundreds of thousands of bacterial cells and is tens to hundreds of times taller than a single cell. (Courtesy: Cassidy Yang)
Myxococcus xanthus is a rod-shaped soil bacterium with the ability to move on surfaces. Under starva

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Rojin Jafari is a PhD student contributor to Physics World working in soft condensed-matter physics at Johns Hopkins University. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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