How does the lowly bacterium sense its environment?
Cornell researchers discover lattice of supersensitive receptors
22-May-2006 -
When humans taste or smell, receptors unique to each nerve cell detect the chemical and send signals to the brain, where many cells process the message to understand what we are smelling or tasting. But a bacterium is just a single cell, and it must use many different receptors to sense and ...
bacteria
chemical biology
chemicals
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