Cell A System For Memory Storage

What if every cell has a system for memory storage? How would that impact our understanding of ‘self?

Larson, B. T., Garbus, J., Pollack, J. B., & Marshall, W. F. (2022). A unicellular walker controlled by a microtubule-based finite state machine. Biophysical Journal, 121(3), 117a.

There’s a new piece of research in Current Biology regarding the movement of a walking (yes, walking) single cell creature called Euplotes eurystomus which demonstrates pretty convincingly that the cell’s locomotion system is a relatively complex molecular finite-state machine. Its 14 “legs” (cirri) are interconnected…

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