{"690723":{"#nid":"690723","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Scientists Found That Bacteria Can Remember Stress Even Though They Have No Brains","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBacteria have no neurons or memories in the human sense. Yet in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prxlife\/abstract\/10.1103\/5zbg-8vll\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers at Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon University \u2014 including School of Physics Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/shiladitya-banerjee\u0022\u003EShiladitya Banerjee \u003C\/a\u003Eand Postdoctoral Fellow \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/josiah-kratz\u0022\u003EJosiah Kratz\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 found that individual E. coli cells carried traces of past hardship into the future. When nutrients repeatedly rose and fell, the cells changed how quickly they grew, suggesting that even simple microbes can use experience to prepare for what may come next.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBacteria have no neurons or memories in the human sense. Yet in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prxlife\/abstract\/10.1103\/5zbg-8vll\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers at Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon University \u2014 including School of Physics Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/shiladitya-banerjee\u0022\u003EShiladitya Banerjee \u003C\/a\u003Eand Postdoctoral Fellow \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/josiah-kratz\u0022\u003EJosiah Kratz\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 found that individual E. coli cells carried traces of past hardship into the future. When nutrients repeatedly rose and fell, the cells changed how quickly they grew, suggesting that even simple microbes can use experience to prepare for what may come next.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-06-10 19:55:44","changed_gmt":"2026-06-11 16:13:07","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"ZME Science","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/science\/biology\/e-coli-remembers-stress\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"7077","name":"bacteria"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}