Why a bacterium got its curve—and why biologists should know

Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 04:31 in Biology & Nature

Drawing from his engineering background, Princeton University researcher Alexandre Persat had a notion as to why the bacteria Caulobacter crescentus are curved—a hunch that now could lead to a new way of studying the evolution of bacteria, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications.

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