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2 HEALTH AND LABORATORY MAGAZINE

“BACTERIA SWIM”
No: 07 April 2022
MAY PREVENT THE
ISSN: 2148-953X

CHAIRMAN SPREAD OF DISEASES
Süleyman GÜLER
EDITOR
Berat DURMAZ University of Minnesota researchers

GRAPHIC DESIGNER studied for the first time how
Berat DURMAZ
bacteria move through fluids
ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Dr. Kadir HALKMAN containing small solid particles.
Professor Dr. Aziz EKŞİ
Melek MALKOÇ
Exp. Yelda ZENCİR
Özlem Etiz SAĞDAŞ
Nevin KOÇAKER

LEGAL ADVISORS For years, science fiction Almost two decades later, for how bacteria move Understanding how bacte-
Hunting. Ersan BARKIN authors have written a multidisciplinary team at through thick, complex ria move through complex,
Hunting. Murat TEZCAN
about the idea of using the University of Minnesota fluids. viscous environments—the
FINANCIAL CONSULTANT microswimmers that has revisited the problem, human body being one—
İrfan BOZYİĞİT could perform surgeries except the swimmers are The U of M researchers can help scientists design
SMMM
or deliver medicines to now microscopic bacte- have a possible answer. treatments for diseases
HEAD OFFICE humans. Now, a team led ria instead of university They believe that as the and even use bacteria as
Oğuzlar Mah. 1374 Sok. No:2/4 by University of Minnesota athletes. They found that bacteria swim, the drag vessels for delivering medi-
Balgat - Ankara TURKEY Twin Cities researchers dis- bacteria swim even faster created from passing by
Tel: +90 312 342 22 45 in thick solutions than in particles allows their flagel- cines to humans.
Fax: +90312 342 22 46 covered how bacteria swim
bilgi@labmedya.com through different complex water. la—or the “tails” bacteria “There are several mecha-
fluids and environments, have that spin in order to nisms people have used to
such as the human body. “Bacterial swimming,” as propel them forward—to explain this phenomenon
it’s commonly known in the better align with their bod- throughout the decades,
Their findings could help research community, has ies, ultimately helping them but with this study, we pro-
scientists develop new been studied intensive- move faster. vide a unified understand-
treatments for bacte- ly by scientists since the ing of what happens when
ria-causing diseases and 1960s. Previous studies A bacterial cell “wobbles” bacteria swim through
www.prosigma.net design bacteria-based have found that bacte- in order to propel itself
info@prosigma.net ria swim faster in thick forward next to a mi- complex solutions,” said
systems for delivering polymer solutions, namely cron-sized colloid parti- Xiang Cheng, senior au-
drugs into the human body.
fluids containing polymers, cle. Video credit: Cheng thor on the paper and an
which are substances Research Group, University associate professor in the
The study is published in
DATE OF ISSUE made up of long chain-like of Minnesota University of Minnesota
February 2022 - Ankara Nature, the world’s leading molecules. Researchers Department of Chemical
peer-reviewed, multidisci-
NOTE TO THE READER plinary science journal. have theorized that this is “People have been fas- Engineering and Materials
Published in the Labmedya because the bacteria can cinated by the swimming Science. “And it’s important
Newspaper featured swim through the net- of bacteria ever since the to understand how bac-
in articles and articles The University of Minneso- work formed by the chain invention of microscopes
Responsibility of opinions ta has a long history with teria move in a complex
Broadcast LabMedya not to swimming in fluids other molecules and can stretch in the 17th century, but environment. For example,
its body and / or Prosigma the chains to assist their until now, the understand- a certain type of bacteria
Company, belongs to the than water. In 2004 Ed Cus- propulsion. ing was mostly limited to
authors. Authors may have sler, then a professor in the simple liquids like water,” causes stomach ulcers.
consultancy or other business Department of Chemical Stomach lining is a viscous
relationships with companies Engineering and Materials However, in this new study, explained Shashank environment, so studying
involved in their work. Ads the U of M team studied for Kamdar, lead author on
also; is the responsibility of Science, compared how the first time how bacteria the paper, a University of how the bacteria move in
advertisers. The product fast a competitive univer- move through solutions Minnesota chemical engi- these environments is im-
information published on the sity athlete swam in water portant to understanding
product introduction pages of small solid particles, neering graduate student,
are the presentations of the versus a thick, syrupy guar instead of chain molecules. and a recipient of the PPG how the disease spreads.”
relevant companies and the gum solution. It led to an Despite vast differences in Research Fellowship. “But it
manufacturer Responsibility. unexpected discovery polymer and particle dy- is still an open question as “In the end, we should all
(and an IgNobel prize) that namics, they found that the to how bacteria are moving learn from bacteria,” Cheng
In addition to the Labmedya
humans can swim just as bacteria still swam faster, in real-life situations, like added. “They keep moving
fast in guar gum solutions suggesting that there must through soil and fluids in forward despite opposi-
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