Summary
Slime molds have inspired and enabled a wide range of biotechnology and bioengineered applications. They are unusual organisms since as a single-celled organism they multinucleate, are capable of movement, memory-like behavior, decision-making, and efficient network formation. Biological highways built by the slime mold Physarum polycephalum experience similar goals and tradeoffs to human-built networks, including needing to efficiently allocate the matter the highways are built from, handling fluctuating levels of traffic, and resisting damage or outages. In building highways and its other be
