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You'd be surprised the author of this drawing

Added	Mon, 20/01/2020
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Sat, 18/01/2020
Версии	Microbes, single-celled algae, phytoplankton, etc.

Scientists managed to accidentally discover that bacteria in mixed colonies can produce beautiful patterns, reminiscent of flowers.

According to physics Liyang Xiong, he noticed a mysterious ornament on the bottom of the Petri dish where bacteria mixed of two types. The figure of the scientist was struck by the beauty, and he decided to find out exactly how micro-organisms engage in such "creative".

The researchers used mathematical modeling techniques. It turned out that the ornaments appear if in a mixed colony of one bacteria shows the mobility, and the other unable to move. In the end, the second seems to be "on the wave" created by the first.

In the experiment used Escherichia coli (almost fixed) and the bacterium Acinetobacter baylyi (rapid and robust).

Through the study of "living together" of bacteria can be improved by implants, pacemakers and catheters, for users which up to the present day bacteria was the problem.

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