My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in @NatureMicrobiol #MolecularNodes #Discovery nature.com/articles/s4156…
@prash_singh @NatureMicrobiol So, bacteria couldn't produce a multicellular life, but managed to build a motor? And why do they need it for? To swim? Or to do stuff, like the mitochondria' membrane motor?
@ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol Hi Zolden! yes, the bacteria uses the flagellar motor to swim.
@prash_singh @ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol How easy is it to disrupt this motor?
@prash_singh @ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol That was my first thought….so this powers the flagella! Hehe
@prash_singh @ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol Would you be able to discuss how we can look at this and understand the complex, multi-modal behaviour and still be confident in evolution?
@prash_singh @ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol They should use it to power their self driving cars
@prash_singh @ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol And no design of course! Just by chance!
@prash_singh @ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol My first thought, this makes so much sense! What’s the mechanism behind adjusting the “transmission” to make the motor bidirectional?
@prash_singh @ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol Are all living beings biological simulations at the molecular level? I say this because today we know that we are brain and cognitive simulations.🤷♂️
@prash_singh @ZoldenGames @NatureMicrobiol I wondered if this was going to be the flagellar motor when I saw the animation! So cool. How does something like this evolve? I feel like I can usually come up with plausible evolutionary routes for interesting structures, but this one has me stumped.