All Peter Yunker articles
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NewsThe geometry of life: Physicists determine what controls biofilm growth
The fitness of a biofilm is largely impacted by the contact angle that the biofilm’s edge makes with the substrate - and this geometry has a bigger influence on fitness than anything else, including the rate at which the cells can reproduce.
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NewsYeast evolves into multicellular life in the lab
A fascinating long-term evolution experiment has seen model organism ’snowflake yeast’ adapt into multicellular individuals more than 20,000 times larger than their ancestor.
