Amoeboid designs complex transportation network, eats oats Research conducted with a simple slime mold shows that it can grow complex … ...

Amoeboid cells are also distinctive with their capacity for pseudopod-driven motility. Pseudopods, meaning false feet, are projections of the cell body that can grow, ...

Amoeboid cells show a unidirectionality in swimming with a corresponding change in pseudopod dynamics, caused by projections becoming more prevalent at the front of the cell.

Amoeboid Swimming: A Generic Self-Propulsion of Cells in Fluids by Means of Membrane Deformations. Physical Review Letters, 2013; 111 (22) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.228102; ...

Amoeboid Robot Navigates Without a Brain. A Japanese researcher draws inspiration from slime mold cognition. By . Christopher Mims archive page; March 9, 2012.

Japan Makes Seat Cushion Sized Amoeboid Blob-like Robot. April 7, 2017 March 14, 2012 by Brian Wang. A new blob-like robot described in the journal Advanced Robotics uses springs, feet, “protoplasm” ...

Met tyrosine kinase has been implicated in tumorigenesis and metastasis; its overexpression and deregulation is often observed in cancer. Although Met's functions in cell motility has been studied ...

Now, researchers at Aix-Marseille University have uncovered a new mechanism by which these amoeboid cells move, describing a new mechanism they call molecular paddling.

Amoeboid Movement. In a new theory to explain the mechanism of motility in amoebae and similar cells,the author proposes that streaming cytoplasm contracts at the front of the cell and literally ...