[HN Gopher] Cells blaze their own trails to navigate through the...
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       Cells blaze their own trails to navigate through the body
        
       Author : theafh
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2022-03-28 17:13 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | pontifier wrote:
       | This is one of those articles that I can imagine coming to mind
       | 10 years down the road when I'm looking at something weird and
       | suddenly thinking "Ooh, that's what I'm looking at!"
        
       | zelphirkalt wrote:
       | So it works kind of like ants, who leave trails for other ants to
       | follow?
        
         | ordu wrote:
         | They are making gradients for themselves. Like a cow eating
         | grass and constantly moving by a gradient of grass mass per
         | area. Or moving away from cow excrements. It is funnier with a
         | herd of cows, because they will hold a line, moving always
         | forward from excrements to grass.
        
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