While these cylindrical wells may look large in this close-up photo, the potentiostat device can fit in a small suitcase. Each well can contain billions of bacteria and measure their power output (and thus, their metabolism rate) with tiny electrodes. Credit: A. Okamoto Like hibernating bears, certain bacterial cells have the ability to shift into
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Physicist Gregor Hlawacek, head of the EU project FIT4NANO, is responsible for a state-of-the-art facility at the HZDR where he can produce and analyze nanostructures using a particularly finely focused ion beam. Credit: Oliver Killig/HZDR Processing materials on the nanoscale, producing prototypes for microelectronics or analyzing biological samples: The range of applications for finely focused