ALTHOUGH flagella movement or propulsion by means of a single flagellum is probably one of the first types of movement which came into existence, the fact remains that comparatively little is known ...

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 ...

Patterns of chemical interactions are thought to create patterns in nature such as stripes and spots. This new study shows that the mathematical basis of these patterns also governs how sperm tail ...

Mimicking how some micro organisms move in fluids with their cilia and flagella, a group of researchers have created an artificial necklace 1 of microscopic beads that can move on their own in fluids ...

Scientists have made a pivotal breakthrough in the quest to understand how single-cell green algae are able to keep track of the light as they swim. A team of researchers from the University of Exeter ...

Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha receives funding from EPSRC. Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also ...