Single-celled slime mold can remember the place of its food

Single-celled slime mold can remember the place of its food

The mold that can smell the location of its food can be used as a biocompass. Or the same molds can be used to make the synthetic smell for robots.

The single-celled mold, what can remember the location of its food can give new visions for the evolution scientists. But the fact is that this kind of mold, which can react to the chemicals, voice, or magnetic fields can be used to control drones. If that sense of the mold depends on the magnetic field, it can make drones like letter dove. That kind of mold will make it return to base, even if the control signal is gone.

If the mold reacts to voice or certain chemicals, that allows using sound or some chemical marks for making drone travel with a certain track. The mold would put in the chamber, where the sensor is searching its movement. And then the drone would travel to the direction, where that mold is showing. If the mold can sense chemical marks from the air, it can be used to track the chemicals.

And if the location happens by sound the mold can be used as a biosensor, which is telling where the source of the sound is. The idea is that when the mold is locating its nutrient, it starts to travel to it. So if it has the RFID or some other marks, the sensor in the drone can locate the movement of the direction of the fungus. And that thing gives the smell to the robots.

But it can also give new visions for people, who are creating the biorobots. If the mold has grown over the layer, where is a certain chemical combination, that mold would keep it as its food? So the mold can be used as the biological tracking tool, which is searching for some chemicals. If the mold is grown in culture, where are things like narcotics or some other mold, that mold can deliver to the house, and it would search those things even in the tiniest bricks.

Those slime molds can be implanted with tracking tools like RFID-sensors, which are used to track the movement of that fungus. For success, that tool requires that the mold can "smell" its nutrient through the air, but even it requires all-time contact between nutrient and cell, it can use to track the vehicles, what is leaking chemical like oil. Also if that fungus will get the genetic transplant from the microbes, what is destroying oil, that thing would make them suitable for clean the oil damages.

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