Researchers Create Microscopic 'Cages' To Study Bacterial Behavior 13
First time accepted submitter Philip Ross writes "Scientists at the University of Texas looked at the interactions between bacteria in 3D-printed environments to better understand what makes some microbes resistant to antibiotics, something health officials have been warning us about for a long time. They used high-precision lasers to print multiple two-dimensional images, using a chip modified from a digital movie projector, onto a layer of flexible gelatin where bacteria were growing. As layers of protein were added to the gelatin, which contains photosensitive molecules that become aroused and bond together after being hit with a laser, they formed a tiny encasing around the bacteria."
Aroused? (Score:2)
which contains photosensitive molecules that become aroused
I thought the physics term for this is "excited", not "aroused". Unless they used some really pervy molecules there...
Re: Aroused? (Score:1)
Nope it's aroused. Lasers do it for me too.
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It makes them "bond together", so I guess "aroused" it the correct term.
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Red Laser Zone
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... maybe because they want to study the behavior of an individual bacterium, and not a whole fucking colony?
Why? (Score:2, Funny)
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That's the trick. This does both, sadly neither where you might expect it to.
Great, soon they'll be asking for legal rights (Score:2)
Bacteria DRM? (Score:1)
interactions between bacteria ... used high-precision lasers ... using a chip modified from a digital movie projector
This is just so difficult to understand -- so what you're saying is that they've used movie technology to successfully implant DRM [wxyz.com] in bacteria?