Shogo Oshima

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#345Phagocytosis

A macrophage hunts a bacterium in a ~5-second loop. Chemotaxis steers the amoeboid cell toward its prey; as it closes it throws out pseudopods — reaching metaball lobes that fan around the rod and then draw shut, swallowing it into a phagosome (a dark vacuole that briefly digests it) before a fresh target spawns and the hunt restarts. The pseudopod-wrapping moment is the payoff. Pointer drops the prey where you point, scroll sets chemotaxis strength, press triggers a new hunt with an extra-eager reach.