janhoglund on Nostr: “We are taught that cells are machines, though no machine we have invented behaves ...
“We are taught that cells are machines, though no machine we have invented behaves like the simplest cell; that DNA is a code or a blueprint, though it is neither; that the brain is a computer, though no computer behaves like a brain at all.”
—Adam Rutherford (Guardian 20240111)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/11/how-life-works-by-philip-ball-review-the-magic-of-biology
#life #biology
—Adam Rutherford (Guardian 20240111)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/11/how-life-works-by-philip-ball-review-the-magic-of-biology
#life #biology