{"id":99831,"date":"2019-12-16T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T02:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/discovery-reveals-tractionless-motion-is-possible"},"modified":"2019-12-16T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T02:04:05","slug":"discovery-reveals-tractionless-motion-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/discovery-reveals-tractionless-motion-is-possible","title":{"rendered":"Discovery reveals tractionless motion is possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-reveals-tractionless-motion-is-possible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an article published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, Bristol scientists have answered the fundamental question: \u201cIs it possible to move without exerting force on the environment?\u201d, by describing the tractionless self-propulsion of active matter.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding how cells move autonomously is a fundamental question for both biologists and physicists.<\/p>\n<p>Experiments on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cell+motility\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cell motility<\/a> are commonly done by looking at the motion of a cell on a glass slide under a microscope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published in Physical Review Letters, Bristol scientists have answered the fundamental question: \u201cIs it possible to move without exerting force on the environment?\u201d, by describing the tractionless self-propulsion of active matter. Understanding how cells move autonomously is a fundamental question for both biologists and physicists. Experiments on cell motility are commonly done [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99831","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}