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How do bacteria move? They have a motor. (www.quantamagazine.org)
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TLDR: If the motor turns one way, they move in a straight line. If it turns the other way, they tumble. How do they hunt? They have chemical sensors.

Science paper: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.03824-24

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago

For the lazy, the new info is about the actual structure of the flagellar motor.