{"id":194452,"date":"2024-08-13T01:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/align-or-die-revealing-unknown-mechanism-essential-for-bacterial-cell-division"},"modified":"2024-08-13T01:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:25:55","slug":"align-or-die-revealing-unknown-mechanism-essential-for-bacterial-cell-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/align-or-die-revealing-unknown-mechanism-essential-for-bacterial-cell-division","title":{"rendered":"Align or die: Revealing unknown mechanism essential for bacterial cell division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/align-or-die-revealing-unknown-mechanism-essential-for-bacterial-cell-division2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A previously unknown mechanism of active matter self-organization essential for bacterial cell division follows the motto \u201cdying to align\u201d: Misaligned filaments \u201cdie\u201d spontaneously to form a ring structure at the center of the dividing cell. The study, led by the \u0160ari\u0107 group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), was published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>. The work could find applications in developing synthetic self-healing materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previously unknown mechanism of active matter self-organization essential for bacterial cell division follows the motto \u201cdying to align\u201d: Misaligned filaments \u201cdie\u201d spontaneously to form a ring structure at the center of the dividing cell. The study, led by the \u0160ari\u0107 group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), was published in Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194452","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=194452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}