Publications by authors named "Aawaz R Pokhrel"
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- Biofilms are dense communities of bacteria that grow on surfaces, and their growth is dictated by how they spread out horizontally versus growing vertically.
- The balance between horizontal and vertical growth affects the biofilm's expansion rate, which in turn influences its overall growth rate.
- Researchers found that the expansion rate of biofilms is influenced by the contact angle at the edge of the biofilm; this geometric factor, along with how quickly the bacteria double, plays a key role in determining how far and fast the biofilm spreads.
The diversity of multicellular organisms is, in large part, due to the fact that multicellularity has independently evolved many times. Nonetheless, multicellular organisms all share a universal biophysical trait: cells are attached to each other. All mechanisms of cellular attachment belong to one of two broad classes; intercellular bonds are either reformable or they are not.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThroughout the animal kingdom, animals frequently benefit from living in groups. Models of collective behaviour show that simple local interactions are sufficient to generate group morphologies found in nature (swarms, flocks and mills). However, individuals also interact with the complex noisy environment in which they live.
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