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Summary
Microbiologists have never quite understood how bacteria can home in on a food source and navigate toward it reliably in spite of variations in the microbes' own genetic makeup or in their environments--until now. A pair of physicists-turned-molecular biologists has mathematically represented how this robust behavior arises from the complex interactions of proteins and pathways rather than from precisely controlling the concentrations and activities of proteins.
