Relatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years or more, long before the first plants took to land. Their simplicity has led scientists to suggest ...

In terms of speed and agility, flagella-powered bacteria would leave Olympic swimmers for dead. They swim hundreds of body lengths in a second, and can change direction in a fraction of that time. The ...

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The bacterial flagellum is a complex organelle that is required for the motility that is driven by an ion-powered rotary motor. The assembly of multiple flagellar organelles in a single cell is ...