That is not too hard to take, because few of us encounter
slime molds with any regularity.
Now in her final year at Oxford, Mehera spends most of her time in the lab studying DNA repair in the model organism Dictyostelium,
a slime mold with proteins that may inform human cancer research.
Not exact matches
They are often grouped in the kingdom Protista together
with the plant - like algae and fungus - like water
molds and
slime molds.
After working
with the
slime mold for years, he had a hunch that «Physarum could be cleverer than expected.»
A wry Londoner
with a brush mustache, he was used to spending most of his time researching fungi, bacteria, and the evolutionary relationships among
slime molds.
It evolved in a lineage
with other soft shapeshifters, including the social amoebas, or
slime molds.
It should be emphasized that this is an example in which political assumptions are applied so widely that they constrain reasoning in an area (the life cycle of
slime mold) that has nothing to do
with the human sciences.
With slime molds, that really happens!
Other collective organisms such as
slime molds must contend
with evolutionary pressures both on the whole and on individuals.
Using the dyes
with magnetic nanoparticles and tiny fluorescent beads, allowed them to use the
slime mold network as a biological «lab - on - a-chip» device.
Studies on mutations of animals as varied as yeast,
slime molds, plants and mice show that deletions of autophagy related genes (ATG) in animals is largely incompatible
with life.
When I spoke
with its director / co - star / co-writer Benjamin Dickinson and co-star comedian / philosopher / rapper Reggie Watts on February 26, 2016, I should not have been surprised that conversation would eventually turn from the eternal struggle between art and commerce, to speculation about the reality of space spores and the taxonomic classification
slime molds (neither
slime, nor
mold).
Additionally from the narration paints the film as an exploration of the delicacy of both life - sustaining systems in space, and interpersonal relationships as the characters are faced
with colliding satellites, extra-terrestrial
slime mold and fear of the unknown.
The law would likely struggle
with the question of whether to treat zombies as animals (entitled to some legal protections from wanton cruelty) or as something more akin to bacteria or
slime molds (entitled to no legal protections).