Bacteria store 'memories' and pass them on for generations, study finds

Bacteria store 'memories' and pass them on for generations, study finds.

E. coli bacteria use iron levels as a way to store information about different behaviors.

Researchers theorize that when iron levels are low, bacterial memories are triggered to form a migratory swarm to se millions ron in the environment. Austin Provided by University of Texas the National Academy of Sciences Journal The University of Texas ">10 Austin /span> 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the National Academy of Sciences an class="summaryFeed_highLightText__NxlGi">al Souvik Bhattacharyya Bhattacharyya Bacteria NxlGi">Bhattacharyya Earth Earth Bacteria h at least four Earth the Department of Molecular Bios Souvik Bhattacharyya