Ultra-fast communication allows aquatic cells to release toxins in unison, researchers find
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

Crouching in the boot-sucking mud of the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, Manu Prakash, associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, peered through his Foldscope-a $1.75 origami microscope of his own invention-scrutinizing the inhabitants of the marsh`s brackish waters. With his eye trained on a large single-cell organism, called Spirostomum, he watched it do something that immediately made it his next research subject.