RT @softmatter
Front cover article:
Just published and #openaccess, Microswimmers in vortices: dynamics and trapping led by Ivan Tanasijević and Eric Lauga https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00907B
But perhaps microorganisms do!
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RT @GoreHrushikesh
This stick is of a Plant in the Himalayas called Garud Kashtha meaning Eagle Wood in Sanskrit; it is helical and moves against the flow of water horizontally or vertically; I wonder if plants use it for the transport of pollen, seeds, or migration?
https://twitter.com/GoreHrushikesh/status/1600479946887294976
RT @burnsajohn
The difference between building a house out of stuff you find laying around and forming one from materials that you made yourself for the purpose. Convergence in function, big difference in approach! #Protists
Cool - now finally a computer game we could get on board with - does it account for hydrodynamic interactions tho😅
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RT @OSTSenior
A sneak peak at Aggi's Tiny Friends. An educational game about microscopic ecosystems, where you customize a cell of your own to see what can survive. The videos by @JourneyToMicro where a huge help in getting the movement of cells right! @ParameciumP @ProtistologyUK #indiedev
https://twitter.com/OSTSenior/status/1599820271656894464
another day, another win for the mighty single-celled organism
#multicellularisoverrated
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RT @jam_and_germs
Single-celled organism, Loxophyllum, eats a multicellular rotifer! This is almost a 5 years old clip but I thought I could share it today!
https://twitter.com/jam_and_germs/status/1597244008891265024
Not nearly enough #protists and #cilia in this universe yet... let's rectify this with an inaugural edition of #CiliaSaturday 😍
Look at all its beautiful 'feet'... !
RT @DeepaHRajan
How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my first paper from my PhD with @WallaceUcsf, co-first-authored with @TMakushok! We discovered that gradual habituation in a cell population is due to step-like switches in single cells https://bit.ly/3GNg702
🧵1/n
RT @DJCohenEtAl
We’re ‘pumped’ to share new work using bioelectricity to inflate living organoids via what we call 'electro-inflation’: e-fields can program ion+water pumping!. W/power-trio @GawoonS, Isaac Breinyn, @almcalvo. See: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.22.517561v1. Vid=kidneyoid+1V/cm E-field. more soon!
ahh @JekelyLab is tooting at us from the other side!!
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RT @JekelyLab
Great paper: a microfluidics assay to encapsulate single cells to study long-term behaviour. @FGieLab @micromotility
Thread here:
https://bit.ly/3gGk5wy
Join us on the other side. Open, distributed, community driven, no ads, no AI feeding you, no random retweets, full control.
https://twitter.com/JekelyLab/status/1596067161180884992
Apparently the alga Mesostigma swims like 'falling leaves'...
Immediately checks YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjd8MQHPfwM
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RT @a1AgqW93RTKPUD9
かなりマイナーな霞ヶ浦のプランクトン。メソスティグマ(Mesostigma sp.)。陸上植物に近い系統の藻類で、ミカヅキモなどと同じストレプト植物門に属している(メソスティグマ藻綱)。オレンジ色の眼点と、細胞を取り囲む微細な鱗片が特徴。ひらひらと落葉が舞うように泳ぐよ。
https://twitter.com/a1AgqW93RTKPUD9/status/1595801234212261888
RT @uniofexeHLS
1/3 The movement patterns of microscopic #algae can be mapped in greater detail than ever before, giving new insights into ocean health, thanks to new technology developed at the @UniofExeter. Read: https://bit.ly/3VkWOPv @LSI_Exeter #MicroOrganisms #OceanHealth
RT @CellRaiser_
Our first preprint is out! Led by Rohith Rajasekaran (@born2raisecell): “A programmable reaction-diffusion system for spatiotemporal cell signaling circuit design”
A visually stunning toolkit to build cellular radios that probe or control cell biology.
RT @Pawel_Burkhardt
Ctenophores on the cover of @TrendsNeuro. So excited about this! Our article "Ctenophores and the evolutionary origin(s) of neurons" in press: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2022.09.001. Beautiful photograph of ctenophores by @Alexandre4_Jan. Work supported by @Sars_Centre @UiB