Thursday, April 07, 2022

 

How Cells Conquer Mazes

"Researchers are beginning to understand more about how migrating cells navigate through the body." Full article @ Quanta Magazine.

When researchers built a miniature replica of the hedge maze at Hampton Court Palace in England, social slime-mold amoebas (Dictyostelium discoideum) solved it efficiently, as seen in this time-lapse video. Chemical gradients created by the cells leading the way discouraged the cells behind them from going down dead ends.

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