The sound of bacterium tails, or flagella, engaging with the graphene drum and causing back-and-forth movements known as oscillations was actually heard by the researchers. This could be the gateway to understanding how listening to bacteria's movement could help treat antibiotic resistance.
Experiments on "listening to" bacteria's motion are bound to raise some eyebrows, but scientists appear to be upbeat. They suggest that studying such a "sonata" will aid doctors in their research into antibiotic treatment.
Have you ever heard the sound of a bacterium symphony? With the use of a graphene drum, Dutch scientists were able to capture "the sound of a single bacterium."
Scientists from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands presented the findings of their investigation in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Scientists were able to "listen" to the sound of E. coli bacteria moving around in the water by using an ultra-thin bilayer membrane made of graphene, t...