{"id":75051,"date":"2018-01-09T06:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/how-bacteria-turbocharged-their-motors"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:02:55","slug":"how-bacteria-turbocharged-their-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/how-bacteria-turbocharged-their-motors","title":{"rendered":"How bacteria turbocharged their motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-bacteria-turbocharged-their-motors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using detailed 3D images, researchers have shown how bacteria have evolved molecular motors of different powers to optimize their swimming.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, by a team from Imperial College London, provides insights into evolution at the molecular scale.<\/p>\n<p>Bacteria use molecular motors just tens of nanometres wide to spin a tail (or \u2018flagellum\u2019) that pushes them through their habitat. Like human-made motors, the structure of these nanoscale machines determines their power and the bacteria\u2019s swimming ability.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-01-bacteria-turbocharged-motors.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;01-bacteria-turbocharged-motors.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using detailed 3D images, researchers have shown how bacteria have evolved molecular motors of different powers to optimize their swimming. The discovery, by a team from Imperial College London, provides insights into evolution at the molecular scale. Bacteria use molecular motors just tens of nanometres wide to spin a tail (or \u2018flagellum\u2019) that pushes them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-habitats","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75051","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75074,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75051\/revisions\/75074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}