Professor Takayuki Nishizaka and Dr. Yoshiaki Kinosita from Gakushuin University, together with Dr. Yoshitomo Kikuchi from AIST, have discovered an unforeseen form of flagella-mediated motility shown ...

Professor Takayuki Nishizaka and Dr. Yoshiaki Kinosita from Gakushuin University, together with Dr. Yoshitomo Kikuchi (Senior Researcher) from AIST, have discovered an unforeseen form of ...

Many species of swimming bacteria have a rotary structure called a "flagellum," consisting of more than twenty different kinds of proteins. By rotating their flagellar filaments and gaining propulsion ...

Xiaowei Zhao, Kai Zhang, Tristan Boquoi, Bo Hu, M. A. Motaleb, Kelly A. Miller, Milinda E. James, Nyles W. Charon, Michael D. Manson, Steven J. Norris, Chunhao Li, Jun Liu, Cryoelectron tomography ...

Bacteria are able to translocate by a variety of mechanisms, independently or in combination, utilizing flagella or filopodia to swim, by amoeboid movement, or by gliding, twitching, or swarming. They ...

The survival curves for a population of reactivated spermatozoa exposed to digestion by trypsin indicate that a large number of trypsin-sensitive targets must be digested before the flagellum ...

Motility of P. aeruginosa flagella is responsible for the production of neutrophil extracellular traps, report scientists. Flagellar motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the main factor required to ...

A research group has discovered an interesting way that bacteria adapt to their environment. Their study, published in ...

A microscopic speck of green algae can trot like a horse. Or gallop. Biophysicist Kirsty Wan compares the gaits of creatures large and small. Moving diagonally opposite limbs, or flagella in this case ...