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Uploaded by on Dec 15, 2009

Swarms of bacteria turn two 380-micron long gears, opening the possibility of building hybrid biological machines at the microscopic scale. Read more at Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/bacterial-micro-machine/#more-15684 or Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brownian-motion-bacteria

Courtesy Igor Aronson.

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  • Rather interesting, this could lead to nanomachines that do not require an external power source...

  • This is cool, but how many hours of video did it take to glimps these two gears moving together?

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  • ahahahah ....

  • @H20RIDER LOL!

  • Where are the nuts for the bacterias rights and freedom cru, This shouldnt be called bacterial enslavement, more like revenge

  • Those bacteria don't look motivated. Threaten them with some Listerine!

  • You sound like a pretty big idiot to me.

  • Great , now Liberals will try to pass labor laws for bacteria.

  • lol

  • We are so stoneage!!

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