How E. coli exploit fluid flow and channel shape to swim upstream and cause infections

"The UN estimates that by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer," says Arnold Mathijssen, a ...
GEN

Intercellular Fluid Flow Impacts Tissue Response to Physical Forces

Water makes up around 60% of the human body. More than half of this water is inside the cells that make up organs and tissues, and much of the remaining water flows in the spaces between cells. MIT ...
The Scientist

Fluid flow shapes hearts

The creation of a normal heart involves a genetic programme, mechanical stimuli, and the cellular processes that link them, but the influence of factors such as blood flow on heart development has ...
The Conversation

Peanut butter is a liquid – the physics of this and other unexpected fluids

Ted Heindel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Scientific American

Here’s the Weird Physics That Makes Peanut Butter a Liquid

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Those Transportation Security Administration requirements are drilled into ...
Chemical Engineering

Facts At Your Fingertips: Mixing in Stirred Tanks

Stirred tanks are common throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), used as batch reactors and continuous-flow ...
TechSpot

Scientists develop micro-robots that can flow like a fluid or collectively assemble into solid shapes

In a nutshell: Researchers have developed minuscule robots that can "assemble" and behave like a collective, building new shapes and tools. Inspired by nature, the team identified and developed the ...