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AI spots hidden behavior patterns in self-organizing bacteria
- April 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Life moves in mysterious ways—and perhaps especially so for organisms that undergo dramatic shifts in levels of self-organization, such as Myxococcus xanthus. A custom-built artificial intelligence system developed by Rice University researchers helped uncover how bacterial communities organize themselves, showing that the earliest moments of a biological transition carry far more information than previously considered.
Originally published at Phys.org