What news from the blob?

Audrey Dussutour in her laboratory. @ Hauteville Productions

By: Caroline Lachowsky

What news from Blob? This brainless and fascinating UFO, neither animal nor plant, this brainless genius, revealed and studied by Audrey Dussutour, who will share with us the latest exploits of her blobs… and it's worth the detour!

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Let's take a look at a UFO, an unidentified living organism, neither plant, animal, nor fungus made up of a single cell: the blob! Physarum polycephalum for initiates, has no mouth, stomach, eyes or legs, and yet it eats (a lot), moves (very quickly), perceives light and changes shape when it pleases ... Devoid of brain and nervous system, it is nevertheless capable of developing incredible strategies to ensure its survival. Blobs have become stars in laboratories in Japan, the United States and Italy. In France, the blob also made its debut at the Vincennes Zoo and even into the Larousse dictionary.

With Audrey Dussutour , researcher at CNRS, in Toulouse. She specializes in ants and single-celled organisms, including the famous blob.

The film Blob, a brainless genius , directed by Jacques Mitsch, is online on Arte.tv until July 18, 2020.

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