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A Tug-of-War Explains a Decades-Old Question About How Bacteria Swim

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (892+ words) Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of biology's most intensively studied molecular machines. Bacteria move through liquids using propellerlike tails called flagella, which alternate between clockwise and counterclockwise rotation....