Swimming with Bacteria (and Dr Matt Baker) #27

12/04/2017 19 min
Swimming with Bacteria (and Dr Matt Baker) #27

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Episode Synopsis

Bacteria are more like submarines than fish. They have propellors and motors. This is one of the extraordinary discoveries that Sydney researcher Dr Matt Baker has been part of. In fact he has gone deeper and is looking inside the different motors bacteria species have. What powers these micro machines ?  How they are made ? His stories of life at a micron level are almost beyond belief.

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