Microscopic cells race to victory in first World Cell Race at ASCB meeting

Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 03:02 in Biology & Nature

A "team" of fast-moving, bone marrow stem cells from a research laboratory in Singapore has run away with the first World Cell Race, finishing first with a cellular speed record of 5.2 microns per minute (or 0.000204 inches per minute) in results announced today at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).

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