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Strength in numbers

By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer / August 8, 2011

Harvard researchers have created an analogue of what they think the first multicellular cooperation might have looked like, showing that yeast cells — in an environment that requires them to work for their food — grow and reproduce better in multicellular clumps than singly.

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Categories: HarvardScience, Life Sciences