Did you know there are colonies of bacteria that make iridescent colours? Or that scientists have figured out how to genetically CONTROL which colours the bacteria reflect? If any of this sounds interesting or confusing, check out this video. I promise you it will be fun!

This is a very accessible video abstract by Kate Feller and Villads Egede Johansen on the recent research published by Johansen and colleagues (PNAS, 2018) that manipulates the genetics of bacteria colonies to produce different structural colour reflections.

Read the original article here: [ Ссылка ]

Press review of article here:
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This is a part of the project LODIS supported by the European Commission through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

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