MIT 8.591J Systems Biology, Fall 2014 - Life at Low Reynolds Number

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systems biology biology protein bacteria Reynold's number diffusion chemotaxis dimensional analysis

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MIT 8.591J Systems Biology, Fall 2014 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/8-591JF14 Instructor: Jeff Gore In this lecture, Prof. Jeff Gore asks, and answers, questions like how do bacteria find food? How do they know which direction to swim, and how do they swim? All of these questions relate to the low Reynold's number regime in which bacteria live. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu