Dr Francesco Carrara

Postdoctoral researcher, ETH Zürich

Sciences & Technology

The superheroes of nutrient detection living in our oceans

New experiments and mathematical modelling reveal that bacteria swimming in the oceans are supremely evolved to detect and move towards hard-to-find nutrients

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