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How Cells Move

A paramecium moves by the beating of its cilia; an amoeba, by the streaming of its cytoplasm; a muscle, by its over-all contraction. All these processes appear to share an underlying molecular unity

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 205 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “How Cells Move” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 205 No. 3 (), p. 184
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0961-184