A huge number of bacterial species are motile by flagella, which allow them to actively move
toward favorable environments and away from hazardous areas and to conquer new …

Bacterial chemotaxis is a biased movement of bacteria toward the beneficial chemical
gradient or away from a toxic chemical gradient. This movement is achieved by sensing a …

Highlights•Different flagellar architectures enable different motility behaviors.•Strategies for
swimming and turning vary.•Flagella can push, pull, flick, and swing, roll, or wrap around the …

The movement of microorganisms is not only an essential aspect of life, it also serves as a
fruitful model for the development of synthetic microswimmers or microrobots with potential …

Bacteria swim in sequences of straight runs that are interrupted by turning events. They drive
their swimming locomotion with the help of rotating helical flagella. Depending on the …

Campylobacter jejuni rotates a flagellum at each pole to swim through the viscous mucosa
of its hosts' gastrointestinal tracts. Despite their importance for host colonization, however …

Magnetotactic bacteria are aquatic or sediment-dwelling microorganisms able to take
advantage of the Earth's magnetic field for directed motility. The source of this amazing trait …

In recent times, numerous efforts have been put forward to fabricating the self-propelling
micro-/nano-motors (MNMs) for various applications, such as drug delivery, environmental …

Swimming microorganisms often experience complex environments in their natural habitat.
The same is true for microswimmers in envisioned biomedical applications. The simple …

Magnetoreception is the sense whereby organisms geolocate and navigate in response to
the Earth's magnetic field lines. For decades, magnetotactic bacteria have been the only …