Fight Eye-Bacteria With ‘Pac-Man Tears’

NPR has posted an interesting article about the eye’s defence mechanisms, referring to how defensive enzymes open and close “almost like a Pac-Man mouth” as they chomp harmful bacteria.

How Tears Go ‘Pac-Man’ To Beat Bacteria [NPR]

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    EmbraceThePing

    Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 6:02 PM

    Sooooooo this isn’t so much an article as just a link to something that we as gamers might find in some way relatable as we have eyes (at least the ones that aren’t in exclusive Japanese schools for disabled children)???

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      Lobo

      Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 6:22 PM

      Despite the brevity of the piece. I think the part of interest is that pac-man is being used as an example of a biological process.

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    Franz

    Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 11:24 PM

    Gypsy tears are better

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    Tasos Chrysostomou

    Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 2:06 AM

    *insert article about games with people walking and how we move is just like the games.

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