Sentences with phrase «slime mould»

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Her research at Rupert will focus on the organisational systems of slime mould, fungi species, plants and deep sea creatures in relation to social structures.

«Force in this sense refers to the gravity that exerts an influence on all things that exist in a space, the force that allows vegetation to grow up from the ground, and the force that enables slime mould to creep along a wall,» Nawa writes.

The distraction of an extra choice, no matter how poor, apparently serves to diminish the overall decision - making process for slime mould and investor alike.

We have shown that this same mechanism allows the slime mould to balance its nutrient intake, make rational and sometimes irrational choices and trade - off between speed and accuracy requirements.

To exemplify this we challenged the slime mould to build a network connecting the suburbs in a food - map of Tokyo (see YouTube video below: Credit: Dr. Seiji Takagi, Hokkaido University).

The slime mould spreads out and connects all the food sources; then it contracts to the minimal path between them.

This slime mould is a protist that we are developing as a model organism to understand the evolution of decision - making.

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum consists of a network of tubes which shuttle nutrient around.

Australian researchers have managed to grow genetic material in a slime mould six times faster than they can clone the genes by conventional methods.

From every litre of nutrient, slime mould and bacteria, the team obtains 50 grams of slime mould cells — ten times the number of cells that can be grown from a litre of animal cell starter.

After three days, the scientists harvest billions of slime mould cells, each containing rotavirus protein.

The plasmid is incubated overnight and then placed in a tray spread with a nutrient, agar, mixed with E. coli bacteria to feed the slime mould.

A rotavirus gene is inserted into a slime mould plasmid.

The proteins are removed from the slime mould with a detergent which eats away the cell membrane.

He's now working on a feedback mechanism to turn audio signals into light, allowing the slime mould to «hear» what its fellow musicians are playing, and will premiere a piece next year written for an ensemble of slime mould and traditional instruments.

Eduardo Miranda, a composer and researcher in artificial intelligence at the University of Plymouth, has created a slime mould accompanist.

When I read about the experiment in which slime mould spread patterns were shown to mimic road networks in the...

In nature, a slime mould relies on chemical receptors on its surface to sense substances in its path as it creeps along the forest floor.

Really, this manifestation is just one stage in the slime mould's life, formed when many single cells, each with their own distinct DNA, mingle and fuse.

Take a slime mould.

Hirokazu Tanimoto and Masaki Sano at the University of Tokyo, Japan, studied what happens during the division of Dictyostelium — a slime mould that has barely changed through eons of evolution.

«Slime mould can be used to perform all the logic functions that conventional computer hardware components can do,» says Gale.

The feeding fronds of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum turn out to have memory resistance — or memristance.

Yellow slime mould is known to follow traces of sweetness to locate food.

Now it seems that slime mould can make similarly complex decisions — despite being just a giant super-cell.

Many different species of slime mould may live in the same place.

We know that chemical gradients are involved in the ordering of the building of a termite nest and in the life history of slime moulds.

Spores of slime moulds on germination produce amoeba - like cells.

A minor celebrity in philosophical circles, slime moulds are neither unicellular nor multicellular, but something in between.

Brasier thinks Maloof's find is «exciting», but cautions that the structures could equally belong to giant single - celled organisms and slime moulds.

Neither are fungi, diatoms, nematodes, tardigrades, slime moulds, algae or most other species on the planet.

«First the bacteria grow and eat the nutrients, and then the slime moulds come up behind and eat the bacteria.»

The cells of slime moulds, however, are more like animal cells in that their walls are less defined than plants; yet they also reproduce using spores, like plants.

Plasmids are free - floating rings of DNA present in bacteria and slime moulds.

Single cellular slime moulds are very different from ants but the way they solve problems is remarkably similar.

Bringing together slime moulds, submarine creatures and migrating birds, the show looks at «processes of emergence of non-neuronal and expanded forms of intelligence, both in nature and technology» and features work by Joey Holder, Anna Mikkola and Jenna Sutela.

Not exact matches

It features patterns made up of images of the microbes she has cultured from her own body (ear, armpit and gut), her environment (dog, shower, sinks, fridge, soil) and slime - mould and mushroom cultures.

The ideas of people like John Gray and James Lovelock, that humanity is a «slime - mould» or a «plague» aren't disregarded as misanthropic lunacy, but actually influence domestic and international political agendas.