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Microbes get by with a little help from their friends

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Sujit Datta demonstrates how scaling arguments, thermodynamics and transport phenomena can be deployed to describe the motion of microbial collectives.

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Datta, S. Microbes get by with a little help from their friends. Nat Chem Eng 2, 90 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-024-00164-9

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