Tag: Howard Berg

  • Nation & World

    Mystery motor

    Harvard researchers have solved the mystery of how some bacteria move across surfaces with the discovery of a rotary motor in the bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making the worms turn

    Biophysicist Aravinthan Samuel has developed new techniques to monitor and influence the behavior of roundworms to learn how their basic nervous systems work, a first step to understanding the circuitry in more complex creatures, like humans.

    4 minutes