Posted on 07/22/2013 10:29:45 AM PDT by null and void
No, those are not cars darting along a busy highway. The glowing specks you're seeing in this video (http://bit.ly/110LTfm) are millions of nuclei flowing through the tube-like filaments, or hyphae, of a single fungus cell.
The video was produced as part of a study by UCLA mathematician Marcus Roper's research group that was the first to measure and explain this dynamic movement of nuclei in the cells of a fungus.
"It's complex, beautiful and so dynamic," said Roper, an assistant professor of mathematics and the lead author of two new studies that cast light on how cells ingeniously adapt to physical challenges.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificcomputing.com ...
Off topic, I've been thinking about the zombie virus, and have come to the conclusion that it isn't a virus, or a bacteria.
Both viruses and bacteria die when the host dies. A fungus does not.
Both viruses and bacteria require a circulatory system to provide a flow of nutrients and waste disposal. Fungi have their own circulatory system, a heart shot wouldn't bother them, they need no central pump.
A body taken over by a mycellium network would be relatively immune to damage, no part depends on any other critical part to survive, except the fruiting body, in the brain case, which sheds spores though the oral cavity.
Ant with brain eating fungal infection. Note the death grip bite...
I saw that movie but I can’t remember the name of it.
They were trapped in a gas station as dead bodies were animated by the creeping crud.
Splinter.
Although they never called it a fungus...
They never called it a fungus but I got that impression.
Your idea actually was made into a video game called “Last of Us”. The game came out in early June of this year. It is really an interesting story.
With Jill Wagner
*sigh* Beaten to the punch yet again.
Don’t feel bad. Most on FR don’t know how great a story the “Last of Us” is. It may be one of the best games I have ever played.
And it all happened by chance... < \sarcasm>
Love Jill Wagner. She had me considering actually purchasing a Mercury a few years back.
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