<I>Dictyostelium discoideum</I> Fruiting Bodies (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

<I>Dictyostelium discoideum</I> Fruiting Bodies

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Slime molds are unicellular organisms that can form multicellular structures like the ones seen here. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have used the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum to understand how cells self-organize into complex structures in new research published in PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1815063116

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Akihiko Nakajima, CC-BY-SA

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