| One, two, . . .
20,000 slime mold cells
Slime mold cells
secrete a protein that helps them count how many of them are in a group.
References:
Brock, D.A., and
R.H. Gomer. A secreted factor regulating aggregate size in Dictyostelium.
Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology. June.
Charlottesville, Va.
Sources:
Richard H. Gomer
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rice University
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Mail Code 140
6100 South Main Street
Houston, TX 77251-1892
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 4, July 24, 1999, p. 59. Copyright © 1999,
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