Modeling mechanical interactions in growing populations of rod-shaped bacteria
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Modeling mechanical interactions in growing populations of rod-shaped bacteria.
Advances in synthetic biology allow us to engineer bacterial collectives with pre-specified characteristics. However, the behavior of these collectives is difficult to understand, as cellular growth and division as well as extra-cellular fluid flow lead to complex, changing arrangements of cells within the population. To rationally engineer and control the behavior of cell collectives we need t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Biology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1478-3975
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/aa7bae