Escherichia coli bacteria imaged by high-speed inline force mapping and fluorescence microscopy. Simultaneous topography and elastic modulus maps show a stiffening of the division site.

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The group – Christian Ganser, Shigetaka Nishiguchi, Feng-Yueh Chan, and Takayuki Uchihashi – chose the common bacteria Escherichia coli to study first in such unprecedented detail.