Suicidal chemotaxis in bacteria

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  • who: Nuno M. Oliveira from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the research: Suicidal chemotaxis in bacteria, in the Journal: Nutrients of 29/01/2022
  • what: The authors show that the prediction was wrong: not only do cells not move away from antibiotics, but the authors also found that they actively move towards them, killing themselves in the process. The authors focused first on whether putative emergent nutrient gradients could be responsible for the observed biased movement towards antibiotics. The authors find that the location of the 1X MIC isocontour predicted by the model shows good agreement . . .

     

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