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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. Speed demons by masternerdguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Still faster than congress debating a bill.

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