“It’s a very important and interesting study,” Stuart Newman, a cell biologist at New York Medical College who was not involved in the study, tells The Scientist, “It’s a new phenomenon for ...

scientists are racing single-celled organisms like cancer cells and slime molds through microscopic mazes along paths the width of a human hair. WSJ’s Robert Lee Hotz reports.

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 ...

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 ...

Shelby Perry of Northeast Wilderness Trust will discuss the life cycle of slime molds at Berkshire Green Drinks' free virtual event at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, via Zoom. During this talk, “From ...