One of the features of cell migration—whether in mammals or in primitive life-forms such as dictyostelium—is the requirement for chemoattractants that signal through seven-transmembrane G ...

Before turning to journalism, I was trained as a molecular biologist at the University of British Columbia. This research focused on the soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and efforts to understand ...

Yasuo Maeda (Tohoku University) demonstrated that the intracellular localization of the Hsp90 homolog Trap1 in Dictyostelium discoideum is regulated by the differentiation state of the organism 20.

Learn more about co-op for biology majors “One of the best biology courses is Dictyostelium Research… Unlike other courses, students are not following a syllabus... The class mirrors a research lab ...

State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ...