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Cell motility: Turning failure into function

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2013

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Berg, Howard C. 2013. “Cell Motility: Turning Failure into Function.” Nature Physics 9 (8) (July 7): 460–461. doi:10.1038/nphys2678.

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In their search for more favourable environments bacteria choose new directions to explore, usually at random. In a marine bacterium with a single polar flagellum it is now shown that this quest is enhanced by a buckling instability.

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