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December 22, 2011

Water droplet with BW-1 cells swimming with the magnetic field.

A drop of water containing cells of BW-1 swimming left (northward), then changing direction when the magnetic field is reversed.

Credit: Dennis Bazylinski and Christopher Lefèvre


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