Flowing Water may Help Slow Down Bacteria

A new research finding has revealed how bacterial movement could be impeded in flowing water and may enhance the likelihood that microbes attach to a surface. The new work could have implications for the study of marine ecosystems, and for our understanding of how infections take hold in medical devices. The findings, the result of microscopic analysis of bacteria inside microfluidic devices, were made by MIT postdoc Roberto Rusconi, former MIT postdoc Jeffrey Guasto ...