Bacteria predate plants and animals by billions of years. Today, they are the world's smallest
cells, yet they represent the bulk of the world's biomass and the main reservoir of nutrients …

This Review summarizes methods for constructing systems and structures at micron or
submicron scales that have applications in microbiology. These tools make it possible to …

Fluid dynamics plays a crucial role in many cellular processes, including the locomotion of
cells such as bacteria and spermatozoa. These organisms possess flagella, slender …

Cell motility in viscous fluids is ubiquitous and affects many biological processes, including
reproduction, infection and the marine life ecosystem. Here we review the biophysical and …

Experimental observations indicate that, at sufficiently high cell densities, swimming bacteria
exhibit coordinated motions on length scales (10 to 100 μm) that are large compared with …

Helical microrobots have the potential to be used in a variety of application areas, such as in
medical procedures, cell biology, or lab‐on‐a‐chip. They are powered and steered …

We use kinetic theory and nonlinear continuum simulations to study the collective dynamics
in suspensions of self-propelled particles. The stability of aligned suspensions is first …

Active suspensions, such as suspensions of self-propelled microorganisms and related
synthetic microswimmers, are known to undergo complex dynamics and pattern formation as …

Direct simulations of large populations of confined hydrodynamically interacting swimming
particles at low Reynolds number are performed. Hydrodynamic coupling between the …

Microfluidics has significantly contributed to the expansion of the frontiers of microbial
ecology over the past decade by allowing researchers to observe the behaviors of microbes …