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Tag: cells

Insiders’ Tell-All About the Dicty World Races

June 25, 2016 Marc Abrahams

Scientists are not above, nor are they below, indulging in the sport of racing. This new study tells how a bunch of scientists arranged for a bunch of cells to race. “A Worldwide Competition to Compare the Speed and Chemotactic Accuracy of Neutrophil-Like Cells,” Monica Skoge, Elisabeth Wong, Bashar Hamza, Albert Bae, Joseph Martel, Rama […]

Arts and Science, Research Newscells, Dictyostelium, race

Other-name calling by scientists

May 4, 2014 Marc Abrahams

Scientists are a fractious lot. Near the end of a long discussion (in his study “Retinal ganglion cells responding selectively to direction and speed of image motion in the rabbit,” Horace B. Barlow, R.M. Hill, and W.R. Levick, The Journal of Physiology, vol. 173, no. 3, 1964, pp. 377-407.), Horace Barlow writes: “Much of this discussion […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsbrain, cells, eye, name

How many microbes on/in a person?

September 23, 2010 Marc Abrahams

Moelselio Schaechter and Stanley Maloy consider an old, and increasingly good question in the Small Things Considered blog: How often have you heard it said, or seen it stated in writing, that we carry ten times more microbial cells than cells of our own? We don’t dispute this figure, at least not as a ballpark […]

Research Newsbacteria, cells, human, microbes, person, ratio
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