Wallace Marshall (UCSF): Ten Craziest Things Cells Do

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Cells are not dumb chemical containers, as we are taught to believe.

This is the list of weird properties of cells:
10. Cells can be very large or very small.
9. Cells can walk.
8. Cells understand direction.
7. Cells are connected via nanotubes, and can share their plasma.
6. Cell fragments can perform their own specialized functions.
5. Cells that can sense electricity. (not in video: Some bacteria can even live from electricity).
4. Cells that can solve mazes. And can learn simple things.
3. Cells that can see.
2. Exploding cells. (Or moving via pressure).
1. Cells (parasites) that control human behaviour.