The slime mold Physarum polycephalum consists of a single biological cell. Because of his ingenious ability to adapt his tubular network to a changing environment, he has been called "intelligent ...

In the project, teams from the University of Jena are also looking for suitable bacteria - in the picture: Petri dish with the bacterium Streptomyces lividans - that fix heavy metals dissolved in ...

How is a normal cell transformed into a cancerous cell? The proteins involved in cell division events no longer appropriately drive progression from one cell cycle stage to the next.