The Sound of Bacteria

[alphacat]

Which one of you fuckers is buying me this for Christmas?
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http://www.physorg.com/news186426510.html

(PhysOrg.com) -- Acting as a microscope for sound, a new device called a micro-ear could make objects on the micro-scale audible. The device could enable scientists to listen to the sounds that cells and bacteria make as they move about, as well as listen to micro-scale events such as how drugs interact with microorganisms.

The micro-ear is being developed by scientists from the University of Glasgow, the University of Oxford, and the National Institute of Medical Research at Mill Hill in the UK. It’s based on the same laser technique that is used to create optical tweezers, which measure tiny forces on small scales.

"We are now using the sensitivity afforded by the optical tweezer as a very sensitive microphone," said Jon Cooper from the University of Glasgow, who is heading the micro-ear project.

While optical tweezers work by suspending tiny electrically-charged beads in a single beam of laser light, the micro-ear concept consists of several of these light beams arranged in a ring in order to surround and eavesdrop on a tiny object. Sound emitted from the object causes the beads suspended in the light to vibrate, and these vibrations can be measured by a high-speed camera.

The scientists have already used the micro-ear to listen to Brownian motion - the random movement of particles in a fluid. They also plan to use the device to listen to bacterial flagella, the tail-like motors that propel bacteria through their environments. Currently, in order to study the movement of flagella, scientists have to genetically engineer bacteria to enable beads to be stuck to their flagella, and observe the beads with a camera. The micro-ear will hopefully make it possible to observe natural bacteria in a non-invasive way.

The micro-ear could also have applications in the medical field. For example, researchers hope to listen to the movement of the human trypanosome parasite, which causes sleeping sickness. By understanding how the parasite moves through human blood, scientists might be able to develop new medicines that stop the bacteria’s flagellum.

"It’s truly exploratory in that we expect and hope we will hear something interesting, but we really don't know," said physicist Richard Berry of the University of Oxford.

[gnome]

What a great idea I wonder if anything amazing will appear like a form of language. I would also love to shout when somebody is listening to the microphone lol

[alphacat]

What a great idea I wonder if anything amazing will appear like a form of language. I would also love to shout when somebody is listening to the microphone lol

You're an evil fucker, gnome. Heh. "TEST! This thing on?! [tap tap]"

I predict that this new nanophone (can't call it a microphone can we?) will spawn a whole new subgenre of IDM called 'Squish' or something like that.

[back2onett]

What a great idea I wonder if anything amazing will appear like a form of language. I would also love to shout when somebody is listening to the microphone lol

You're an evil fucker, gnome. Heh. "TEST! This thing on?! [tap tap]"

I predict that this new nanophone (can't call it a microphone can we?) will spawn a whole new subgenre of IDM called 'Squish' or something like that.

Squishstep, teh wobblez... only smaller

[gnome]

Squish haha thats quality. We should rename microphones to megaphones and megaphones to gigantaphones

[sifres]

Mmmm.. And my first thought was about defecating on a microphone... This is more boring actually.

[alphacat]

Mmmm.. And my first thought was about defecating on a microphone... This is more boring actually.

You Dutch are seriously sick fucks. Maybe that's why I like you guys so much... nah. Never mind. It's just your weed that I like.

[zapruderpedro]

the thing with making wobbles out of defecating onto a microphone is that i could never get the lfo to sync to the filter cutoff quite right

[alphacat]

the thing with making wobbles out of defecating onto a microphone is that i could never get the lfo to sync to the filter cutoff quite right

You have the wrong kind of LFO: you need a Lil' Fecal Oscillator, not a Low Frequency Oscillator.

That's the only way to know when the shit hits the fan, right?

[zapruderpedro]

SKEE BA BOP BA DOP BOP

[grooki]

cool

[Daylun]

This is absolutely freaky.. I have just made a filthy dubstep track with strange sounds in it .. I couldn't think of a name for it so I typed in 'what does the sound of bacteria sound like?' in google because the sounds kindof sound a bit like an organism of some kind and surpise surpise there is a dubstep topic on this lol. Ill post the track let me know what you think.. I think I will name the track 'the sound of bacteria' Thanks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfeytfmigKA

[NinjaEdit]

What a great idea I wonder if anything amazing will appear like a form of language. I would also love to shout when somebody is listening to the microphone lol

Bacteria communicate with each other with a chemical, so they know how much of them there is. They have both a species-specific and universal bacteria chemical.

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

hoped you talk about ed rush and optical

[kaiori breathe]

That sounds amazing. I wish somebody would make a micronose though.

[Brothulhu]

What a great idea I wonder if anything amazing will appear like a form of language. I would also love to shout when somebody is listening to the microphone lol

Bacteria communicate with each other with a chemical, so they know how much of them there is. They have both a species-specific and universal bacteria chemical.

That's some cool shit there

[billybuxton]

hoped you talk about ed rush and optical

+1

[OfficialDAPT]

it would be awesome if this could somehow lead to advances in medical knowledge.

[Genevieve]

it would be awesome if this could somehow lead to advances in medical knowledge.

Catch bacteria talking shit about your health before actually doing anything to it