{"692534":{"#nid":"692534","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bacteria can remember without brain, new study finds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIf you dropped the exact same pulse of food onto two identical bacteria, you\u0027d expect the exact same response. That\u0027s not what happened. In a study published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPRX Life\u003C\/em\u003E in May 2026, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech found that E. coli exposed to unstable, feast-and-famine conditions adapted to new food far faster than bacteria pulled from a stable environment, even when the immediate conditions in front of them were identical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EYou may think that one cell has no place to keep things such as memories. Scientists, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJosiah Kratz\u003C\/strong\u003E, a postdoctoral fellow in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, observed tens of thousands of individual E. coli bacteria through a special microfluidic apparatus and found that the cause was ribosomes, the components of the cell responsible for building proteins and determining the growth rate.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIf you dropped the exact same pulse of food onto two identical bacteria, you\u0027d expect the exact same response. That\u0027s not what happened. In a study published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPRX Life\u003C\/em\u003E in May 2026, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech found that E. coli exposed to unstable, feast-and-famine conditions adapted to new food far faster than bacteria pulled from a stable environment, even when the immediate conditions in front of them were identical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EYou may think that one cell has no place to keep things such as memories. Scientists, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJosiah Kratz\u003C\/strong\u003E, a postdoctoral fellow in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, observed tens of thousands of individual E. coli bacteria through a special microfluidic apparatus and found that the cause was ribosomes, the components of the cell responsible for building proteins and determining the growth rate.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-09-11 12:14:13","changed_gmt":"2026-09-11 19:18:01","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The News International","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/latest\/1415695-bacteria-can-remember-without-brain-new-study-finds","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","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":"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":""}}}