Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.08.009 University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have solved a decades-old mystery about how E. coli and other bacteria are able to move. Bacteria push themselves forward by coiling long, threadlike appendages into corkscrew shapes that act as makeshift ...
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