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Helping bacteria use magnets
Email: Charles Choi - cqchoi@nasw.org News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20051121-02
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Scientists in Germany have identified cytoskeletal structures and a gene that anchor magnetic crystals inside magnetobacteria, organisms that navigate Earth's magnetic field. The findings, which appeared online Sunday in Nature, could help elucidate other poorly understood biomineralization processes, such as those producing magnetic nanoparticles in higher organisms, senior author Dirk Schüler at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, told The Scientist.
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