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Slime Takes a Stroll

The paper I read for this month brought up an interesting question I’ve always had but never really dug into: how do individual cells find things they can’t “see”? After all, there are lots of microbes out there who can’t always see where their next meal is coming from. How do they go about looking? A group of scientists at Princeton University took a stab at the problem by...