CHEMOTAXIS IN BACTERIA.

Cambridge (Mass.); Massachusetts

The article offers information on the findings that bacteria has a chemical sensing or chemotaxis that guide them to source for food, according to the investigators at Harvard University. This discovery has been reported at the meeting of the American Society of Microbiology. It notes that although specific types of bacteria can be attracted to certain chemicals, the role that this attraction plays in bacteria's life is still unknown. In relation, the Harvard biologists initiated an examination of this role by studying marine bacteria. An overview of the results of their study is provided.