World record #19 - The world’s strongest organism

The gonorrhea bacterium is the world’s strongest organism, able to “pull with a force equal to 100,000 times their body weight”:

Sexually transmitted bug is the strongest organism

From the article:

It means the bacteria can pull with a force equivalent to 100,000 times its bodyweight, and hold it. This, say the authors, makes the retraction protein in the pili “the strongest biological motor known to date”.

“This constitutes a new paradigm for the generation of forces in the biological realm,” Sheetz and colleagues say, and could completely change our understanding of the way gonorrhea bacteria muscle up to cells and infect them.

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