Amoeba Cells Moving in An Electric Field (VIDEO)

University of California - Davis

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UC Davis researcher Min Zhao and colleagues are looking for genes that allow living cells to detect electric fields. This could be important in wound healing. They found that removing a gene called PiaA disrupts the ability of the soil amoeba Dictyostelium to respond to an electric field.

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Movies by Min Zhao, UC Davis. Edited by Andy Fell.

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