{"id":192380,"date":"2024-07-05T18:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/getting-bacteria-into-line-physicists-use-magnetic-fields-to-manipulate-bacterial-behavior"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:23:28","slug":"getting-bacteria-into-line-physicists-use-magnetic-fields-to-manipulate-bacterial-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/getting-bacteria-into-line-physicists-use-magnetic-fields-to-manipulate-bacterial-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Getting bacteria into line: Physicists use magnetic fields to manipulate bacterial behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/getting-bacteria-into-line-physicists-use-magnetic-fields-to-manipulate-bacterial-behavior3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Finland\u2019s Aalto University have found a way to use magnets to line up bacteria as they swim. The approach offers more than just a way to nudge bacteria into order\u2014it also provides a useful tool for a wide range of research, such as work on complex materials, phase transitions and condensed matter physics.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42005-024-01707-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Communications Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Bacterial cells generally aren\u2019t magnetic, so the magnets don\u2019t directly interact with the bacteria. Instead, the bacteria are mixed into a liquid with millions of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic nanoparticles<\/a>. This means the rod-shaped bacteria are effectively non-magnetic voids inside the magnetic fluid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Finland\u2019s Aalto University have found a way to use magnets to line up bacteria as they swim. The approach offers more than just a way to nudge bacteria into order\u2014it also provides a useful tool for a wide range of research, such as work on complex materials, phase transitions and condensed matter physics. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}