Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by the unaided eye. Let the slime mould span two electrodes with a single protoplasmic tube: if the tube is heated to approximately ≈40 °C, the electrical resistance of the protoplasmic tube increases from ≈3 MΩ to ≈10,000 MΩ. The organism's resistance is not proportional nor correlated to the temperature of its environment. Slime mould...

Introduction: The management of pain and inflammation related problem is a real challenge that people face daily. Although several drugs are available for these conditions, medicinal plants are believed to be an important source of new chemical substances with potential therapeutic effects. The objective of current study was to investigate the anti-nociceptive effect of Tanacetum Fisherae which...

When two food sources are presented to the slime mold Physarum in the dark, a thick tube for absorbing nutrients is formed that connects the food sources through the shortest route. When the light-avoiding organism is partially illuminated, however, the tube connecting the food sources follows a different route. Defining risk as the experimentally measurable rate of light-avoiding movement, the...

Spores of race 2 but not of race 1 of Colletotrichum lagenarium are ingested by myxamoebas of strain NE-30 of the slime mold Acrasis rosea. Sporulating colonies of three heterocaryons of C. lagenarium involving auxotrophic strains with different color markers of races 1 and 2 were inoculated with myxamoebas. Although spores of race 1 produced on homocaryons were not ingested by the myxamoebas, ...