Despite the absence of a brain, the slime mold can perform amazing tasks with its cell structure and react to its environment. It moves actively in search of food, forming a branched network of ...

Despite the absence of a brain, the slime mold can perform amazing tasks with its cell structure and react to its environment. It moves actively in search of food, forming a branched network of ...

Slime molds have lived on Earth since long before the emergence of the human species. As single-celled organisms, slime molds do not have brains or nerves. And yet, they have ways of processing ...

Dictyostelium discoideum, a type of slime mold, produces differentiation-inducing ... from promoting glucose uptake in mammalian cells to inhibiting cancer cell adhesion and metastasis.

Government inspectors documented unsanitary conditions at several Boar’s Head deli meat plants, not just the factory that was ...

with groups of cells organized into tissues and/or organs, some multicellular organisms, such as slime molds and at least one ciliate species, possess very few cell types and do not produce ...