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World's Fastest Cells Raced On Petri Dish

Posted by timothy on from the stick-timekeeping-duties-to-the-intern dept.

ananyo writes "In a tongue-in-cheek contest of microscopic mobility, a line of bone marrow stem cells from Singapore beat out dozens of competitors to claim the title of the world's fastest cells. They whizzed across a petri dish at the breakneck speed of 5.2 microns per minute — or 0.000000312 kilometers per hour."

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  1. Misleading summary by tpjunkie · · Score: 5, Informative

    They were simply the fastest cells that were among those that were raced; many cells from various species of protists, not to mention sperm cells are capable of faster speeds than that.