Breakthrough in Cell Biology
We all know that the basic unit of life is the cell, but have you ever wondered how these tiny cells arrange themselves so as to form our bodies into a particular shape? Why do we have any shape at all? Why don’t we look like a bag of jelly?
I just met the man who, working in a research lab in Finland, discovered the “extracellular matrix,” a collection of proteins and carbohydrates to which all healthy cells must bind in order to stay alive, and it is this that provides the body’s structure.
This has relevance to cancer research, because those cells do not have to adhere to the matrix in order to survive, which is why they move around inside the body, and ultimately metastasize, land somewhere and start dividing rapidly.
I asked him if he is religious, i.e., if he thought God created the extracellular matrix. He immediately replied: no.
Now, part of his response may be rooted in the fact that he’s Scandinavian, a region where virtually no one has a religious affiliation. More likely for this scientist, however, is that the idea that life on Earth, that has evolved over the last four billion years, probably didn’t do so at the direction of the divine.
Here’s a short but extremely well-made 
The other day, someone asked me, “If you had to answer this question in only one word, what gives your life meaning?” I replied, “Helping.”
Isn’t it astonishing we have people eligible to vote who do not even register?
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At left is one of the dozens of reasons that we need to get rid of Trump immediately.
Obviously, but can it be scientifically and accurately diagnosed by some guy with a JD degree? No. Good on Pritzker for backing off on this question.
I’m not sure.
It’s weird that no one talks about this anymore (did we talk about it at all?), but how likely is it that the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in which he was supposedly hit in the ear by a round from an AR-15 didn’t leave a scar? Not even a scratch?
According to Trump’s head of Homeland Security, we, the American people, have two choices: stay silent against ICE agents’ grossly illegal and sometimes lethal violence against innocent people, or face “more bloodshed.”
