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White Blood Cell
450,007 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
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White Blood Cell
White blood cells are the body's defenders: they find and clear away germs.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to catch a bacterium and eat it up.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 381 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 23, Tiny World
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 450,007
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catch a bacterium | Tap | ||
| Engulf | Button | ||
| Color | Color | #cdb4f0 |
About it
White blood cells are the body's defenders: they find and clear away germs. This one is a neutrophil, the most common kind, which eats bacteria by wrapping itself around them. This is called phagocytosis, which means "cell eating" in Greek.
Tap it and a bacterium swims in from the side. The cell reaches out a cup of its skin around it, draws it inside and closes over it; then tiny grains inside the cell gather on it and break it down until it is gone. Élie Metchnikoff first saw cells eating germs like this, and won a Nobel Prize in 1908.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,999 at Low, and up to 650,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
