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“These responses [to viscosity] are important for understanding not only the individual lives of microbes and the ecosystems they live in. They're important for understanding our own bodies because to many microbes, we are just another strange geographic feature to live in. We're a living bag of fluids that bacteria often find their way into. And how they navigate our body deepling impacts our health.”

Journey to the Microcosmos- Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller

Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs

“How can they move so fast in syrup? We went into more detail about how single-celled eukaryotes do this many episodes ago. Some use cilia, others use flagella. And while these are different structures with their own motions, the effect is the same. Cilia and flagella generate thrust, which keeps the organism moving.”

Journey to the Microcosmos- Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller