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World Cell Race

Posted by , on 12 September 2012

The Olympics and the Paralympics may be over, but there’s still time for sporting success this year, albeit on a rather smaller scale. The 2012 World Cell Race is on. Over the last year or so, I’ve heard both Matthieu Piel and Manuel Thery talk about the 2011 version of the race, and this morning I noticed that the results have just been published in Current Biology, officially* revealing that the fastest cell is a human mesenchymal stem cell.

Think you can beat that? They’re still accepting submissions for this year’s race, so if you have the single-celled equivalent of a Usain Bolt or an Oscar Pistorius in your freezer, send it in!

*Well, officially out of the 54 cell types they tested under the specific conditions they used…

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