Giant multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes in marine sediments academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs
February 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Giant multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes in marine sediments academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs
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Say hello to multicellular magnetotactic bacteria. Cartoon by @SchaibleGeorge
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Say hello to multicellular magnetotactic bacteria. Cartoon by @SchaibleGeorge
See > biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MicroSky
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February 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM
borrowed from 𝕏 : Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social
Say hello to multicellular magnetotactic bacteria. Cartoon by @SchaibleGeorge
See > biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MicroSky
Say hello to multicellular magnetotactic bacteria. Cartoon by @SchaibleGeorge
See > biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MicroSky
Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks
Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.
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September 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.
Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks
Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.
buff.ly
September 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.
Giant multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes in marine sediments
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March 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Giant multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes in marine sediments
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Isolation and cultivation of a novel freshwater magnetotactic coccus FCR-1 containing unchained magnetosomes www.nature.com/articles/s42... #jcampubs
Isolation and cultivation of a novel freshwater magnetotactic coccus FCR-1 containing unchained magnetosomes - Communications Biology
Magnetotactic coccus FCR-1, axenically cultivated, is a novel freshwater magnetotactic coccus belonging to the family Ca. Magnetaquicoccaceae and biomineralizes unchained truncated hexagonal prismatic...
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March 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Isolation and cultivation of a novel freshwater magnetotactic coccus FCR-1 containing unchained magnetosomes www.nature.com/articles/s42... #jcampubs
Let's talk about the microbes that build a compass inside their cells, the magnetotactic bacteria.
They live in a narrow ribbon between oxygen-rich water environments & oxygen-poor sediment zones, feasting on protons generated in iron-sulfur reduction chemistry.
Their specialized "magnetosomes"...
They live in a narrow ribbon between oxygen-rich water environments & oxygen-poor sediment zones, feasting on protons generated in iron-sulfur reduction chemistry.
Their specialized "magnetosomes"...
May 2, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Let's talk about the microbes that build a compass inside their cells, the magnetotactic bacteria.
They live in a narrow ribbon between oxygen-rich water environments & oxygen-poor sediment zones, feasting on protons generated in iron-sulfur reduction chemistry.
Their specialized "magnetosomes"...
They live in a narrow ribbon between oxygen-rich water environments & oxygen-poor sediment zones, feasting on protons generated in iron-sulfur reduction chemistry.
Their specialized "magnetosomes"...
There are applications for these nano sized biocrystals of magnetic iron in cancer monitoring and therapy, either in isolation, or as part of genetically modified magnetotactic bacteria.
The iron can be heated with magnetic fields, or detected with magnetic imaging, and concentrates in tumor cells.
The iron can be heated with magnetic fields, or detected with magnetic imaging, and concentrates in tumor cells.
Therapeutic Applications of Magnetotactic Bacteria and Magnetosomes: A Review Emphasizing on the Cancer Treatment
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are aquatic microorganisms have the ability to biomineralize magnetosomes, which are membrane-enclosed magnetic nanoparticles. Magnetosomes are organized in a chain inside...
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May 2, 2024 at 12:46 PM
There are applications for these nano sized biocrystals of magnetic iron in cancer monitoring and therapy, either in isolation, or as part of genetically modified magnetotactic bacteria.
The iron can be heated with magnetic fields, or detected with magnetic imaging, and concentrates in tumor cells.
The iron can be heated with magnetic fields, or detected with magnetic imaging, and concentrates in tumor cells.
Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks
Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.
buff.ly
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Ain't no prokaryotes like magnetotactic prokaryotes, because magnetotactic prokaryotes don't drift!
February 18, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Ain't no prokaryotes like magnetotactic prokaryotes, because magnetotactic prokaryotes don't drift!
Magnetotactic Bdellovibrionota from a ferruginous spring
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Magnetotactic Bdellovibrionota from a ferruginous spring
Abstract. Magnetotactic bacteria form a highly diverse group of microorganisms, yet early exploration of their diversity was largely centered on the Pseudo
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June 7, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Magnetotactic Bdellovibrionota from a ferruginous spring
#microbiology #bacteria #MicroSky
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Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks elifesciences.org/articles/104... #jcampubs
Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks
Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.
elifesciences.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks elifesciences.org/articles/104... #jcampubs
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) evolved microscopic “compasses” to align to and navigate via Earth’s magnetic field. Today, those same magnetic powers are inspiring new ways to target cancer, deliver drugs and design microrobots for precision medicine. Get the full story: asm.org/articles/202...
April 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) evolved microscopic “compasses” to align to and navigate via Earth’s magnetic field. Today, those same magnetic powers are inspiring new ways to target cancer, deliver drugs and design microrobots for precision medicine. Get the full story: asm.org/articles/202...
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!
Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the Quality Quorum
@markowenmartin.bsky.social
Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the Quality Quorum
@markowenmartin.bsky.social
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
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January 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!
Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the Quality Quorum
@markowenmartin.bsky.social
Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the Quality Quorum
@markowenmartin.bsky.social
...and finally, @melvazquezh.bsky.social chose this paper about metabolic differentiation within multicellular consortia of magnetotactic bacteria, by @quantaofgeorge.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social &co: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells
Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) are unique in having no unicellular stage in their life cycle. This study characterizes the genomics and physiology of MMB consortia at single cell resolutio...
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January 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
...and finally, @melvazquezh.bsky.social chose this paper about metabolic differentiation within multicellular consortia of magnetotactic bacteria, by @quantaofgeorge.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social &co: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Read the primer to our paper here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Uncovering the hidden complexity of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria
Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) have a surprisingly complex multicellular lifestyle. This Primer explores a new study in PLOS Biology which combines genomics, microscopy, and isotopic label...
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July 12, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Read the primer to our paper here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #jcampubs
Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells
Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) are unique in having no unicellular stage in their life cycle. This study characterizes the genomics and physiology of MMB consortia at single cell resolutio...
journals.plos.org
July 12, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #jcampubs
Deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria form intracellular carbonates enriched in trace metals journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria form intracellular carbonates enriched in trace metals journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
oldies but goodies from 𝕏 - now for #MicroSky
on 𝕏 by 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗣𝗩/𝗘𝗛𝗨 @MagteriaUPV on Sep 10, 2020
Here is our contribution to #InternationalMicroorganismDay A group of the magnetotactic bacteria MSR-1 🦠 filled with nanomagnets (magnetosomes) 🧲 @femsmicro.bsky.social
on 𝕏 by 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗣𝗩/𝗘𝗛𝗨 @MagteriaUPV on Sep 10, 2020
Here is our contribution to #InternationalMicroorganismDay A group of the magnetotactic bacteria MSR-1 🦠 filled with nanomagnets (magnetosomes) 🧲 @femsmicro.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
oldies but goodies from 𝕏 - now for #MicroSky
on 𝕏 by 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗣𝗩/𝗘𝗛𝗨 @MagteriaUPV on Sep 10, 2020
Here is our contribution to #InternationalMicroorganismDay A group of the magnetotactic bacteria MSR-1 🦠 filled with nanomagnets (magnetosomes) 🧲 @femsmicro.bsky.social
on 𝕏 by 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗣𝗩/𝗘𝗛𝗨 @MagteriaUPV on Sep 10, 2020
Here is our contribution to #InternationalMicroorganismDay A group of the magnetotactic bacteria MSR-1 🦠 filled with nanomagnets (magnetosomes) 🧲 @femsmicro.bsky.social
Let's think about magnetotactic bacteria. Computers. And country music. You will smile.
youtu.be/3uUL4ooM6KI?...
youtu.be/3uUL4ooM6KI?...
Dancing magnetotactic bacteria
YouTube video by Tijmen Hageman
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January 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Let's think about magnetotactic bacteria. Computers. And country music. You will smile.
youtu.be/3uUL4ooM6KI?...
youtu.be/3uUL4ooM6KI?...
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!
George Schaible & Mark Martin discuss multicellularity in bacteria and archaea
George Schaible & Mark Martin discuss multicellularity in bacteria and archaea
January 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!
George Schaible & Mark Martin discuss multicellularity in bacteria and archaea
George Schaible & Mark Martin discuss multicellularity in bacteria and archaea
George Schaible's Opus Magnum “Multicellular magnetotactic bacterial consortia are metabolically differentiated and not clonal” now up as preprint. I am very proud of this work, which is the culmination of the first grant I ever got (by NASA Exobio). tinyurl.com/mr29uph4
Multicellular magnetotactic bacterial consortia are metabolically differentiated and not clonal
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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November 28, 2023 at 2:04 AM
George Schaible's Opus Magnum “Multicellular magnetotactic bacterial consortia are metabolically differentiated and not clonal” now up as preprint. I am very proud of this work, which is the culmination of the first grant I ever got (by NASA Exobio). tinyurl.com/mr29uph4