{"id":192696,"date":"2024-07-10T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/getting-bacteria-into-line"},"modified":"2024-07-10T06:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T11:23:52","slug":"getting-bacteria-into-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/getting-bacteria-into-line","title":{"rendered":"Getting bacteria into line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/getting-bacteria-into-line2.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 \u2013 it 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 findings have been reported in Communications Physics (\u201cMagnetically controlled bacterial turbulence\u201d).<\/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 magnetic nanoparticles. This means the rod-shaped bacteria are effectively non-magnetic voids inside the magnetic fluid. When the magnets are switched on, creating a magnetic field, the bacteria are nudged to line up with the magnetic field because any other arrangement takes more energy \u2013 it\u2019s harder to keep the rod-shaped holes at an angle to the magnetic field.<\/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 \u2013 it also provides a useful tool for a wide range of research, such as work on complex materials, phase transitions and condensed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192696","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}