Biofilm Memory (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Biofilm Memory

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Memory imprints: Researchers used light exposure to impress a complex pattern (UC San Diego's former Geisel Library logo, spread across an area slightly smaller than the thickness of a human hair) onto a biofilm community--made up of hundreds of individual bacteria--that remembered the initial light stimulus, similar to how neurons form memory.

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Suel Lab, UC San Diego

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