{"651663":{"#nid":"651663","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Single Cells Evolve Large Multicellular Forms in Just Two Years","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have discovered that environments favoring clumpy growth are all that\u0026rsquo;s needed to quickly transform single-celled yeast into complex multicellular organisms. Georgia Tech scientists \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.08.03.454982v1.article-info\u0022\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that over the course of nearly two years of evolution, they have induced unicellular yeasts to grow into multicellular clusters of immense size, going from microscopic to branching structures visible to the naked eye. Those scientists include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EG. Ozan Bozdag\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/kai-tong\u0022\u003EKai Tong\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student, all\u0026nbsp;School of Biological Sciences; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor, Thomas C. Day, graduate student, and\u0026nbsp;Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj, former graduate student, all\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;the School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/single-cells-evolve-large-multicellular-forms-in-just-two-years-20210922\/#comments\u0022\u003E9\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-10-13 15:00:54","changed_gmt":"2021-10-13 15:00:54","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Metz Mayor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/single-cells-evolve-large-multicellular-forms-in-just-two-years-20210922\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"189054","name":"multicellular growth"},{"id":"177585","name":"William Ratcliff"},{"id":"168707","name":"Peter Yunker"},{"id":"187821","name":"Ozan Bozdag"},{"id":"189055","name":"Thomas C. Day"},{"id":"189056","name":"Kai Tong"},{"id":"189057","name":"Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}