Tiny amoebas move faster when carrying cargo
That’s the surprising finding of a study of the carrying capacity of single-cell amoebas. The microbes serve as prototypes of microscopic “trucks” for delivering drugs to precisely target disease inside the human body or moving material for minuscule construction projects (SN: 9/30/20). Researchers tested the cargo capacity of the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum with styrene balls…