{"id":696958,"date":"2021-07-23T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696958"},"modified":"2021-07-23T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:59:24","slug":"bacteria-navigate-on-surfaces-using-a-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696958","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria navigate on surfaces using a &#039;sense of touch&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many disease-causing bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa crawl on surfaces through a walk-like motility known as &#8220;twitching.&#8221; Nanometers-wide filaments called type IV pili are known to power twitching, but scientists ignore which sensory signals coordinate the microbes&#8217; movements.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-07-bacteria-surfaces.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bacteria navigate on surfaces using a &#8216;sense of touch&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many disease-causing bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa crawl on surfaces through a walk-like motility known as &#8220;twitching.&#8221; Nanometers-wide filaments called type IV pili are known to power twitching, but scientists&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}