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Synthetic Biology

These are either the scariest words ever written or the announcement of our impending immortality… "We make a genome from four bottles of chemicals; we put that synthetic genome into a cell; that synthetic genome takes over the cell," said Dr. Gibson. "The cell is entirely controlled by that new genome." The scientists didn’t [...] Read more »

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Sodium and Potassium

Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of reality – Santiago Ramon y Cajal "Every thought, every feeling, every sensation ever experienced by any animal on this planet is the result of sodium entering a cell and potassium leaving the cell…" paraphrased from my notes as spoken by our Biology professor. Above (Na+/K+-ATPase – aka [...] Read more »

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