Dictyostelium inspires creativity, and this page contains the first beautiful examples.
If you would like to share art that finds its source in Dictyostelium, created by you or
an artist you know, please contact dictyBase.
Project Homo Amoeba investigates the ideal of flexibility. One is
flexible when one can adapt to all situations. For humans, this is more an ideal than reality.
For amoebas, being elastic and flexible is no exception. Dictyostelium serves here as a
representation of the ideal. A man attempts to imitate the movement. Artúr van Balen, April 2008
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Permission is hereby granted by the copyright holder to use these images for any non-commercial use, including inclusion in web pages, presentations, and reports. The images should have a minimal attribution of "Copyright, Paul H. Dear, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK"
Geographic Best Microscopic Images Competion 2008, 4th place
Image by Matthew Springer, Stanford University.
See it at National
Geographic.
