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ArticleScience advances2018

Swimming bacteria power microspin cycles.

Alex E Hamby, Dhruv K Vig, Sasha Gaines, Charles W Wolgemuth

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Article in Science advances, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Vortex reversal is a precursor of confined bacterial turbulence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Edge current and pairing order transition in chiral bacterial vortices.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  6. Bacterial Behavior in Confined Spaces.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alex E HambyDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5908-7521
Dhruv K VigDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Sasha GainesDepartment of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2240-7421
Charles W WolgemuthDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3588-3136
University of Arizona · US

Funding

GRADUATE TRAINING IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGYT32GM008659 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI CAPALDI, ANDREW PAUL, WEINERT, TED A. · 1997 to 2019
$5.3M
Graduate Training in Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyT32GM136536 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI Andrew Paul Capaldi, FRANS E TAX · 2020 to 2026
$2.4M
Elastic Model of Spirochete Morphology and MotilityR01GM072004 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI WOLGEMUTH, CHARLES W · 2004 to 2013
$2.2M
Humanizing N-linked glycosylation in Escherichia coliR43GM088905 · NIGMS · GLYCOBIA, INC. · PI FISHER, ADAM CHARLES · 2009 to 2009
$116k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072004NIGMS NIH HHS R43 GM088905NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008659NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM136536
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dense suspensions of swimming bacteria are living fluids, an archetype of active matter. For example,

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Bacterial Physiological PhenomenaModels, TheoreticalAlgorithmsEscherichia coli

Identifiers

PMID30585288
PMCPMC6300399
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