Re:The Circuitry in Our Cells
by daemonk on Monday February 19, 2018 @05:52PM
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Yeah agreed. I don't think most people actually understand the level of complexity involved in biology. A cell is literally a bag of molecules where everything inside is just bouncing around. And somehow, things self organize and stuff works and performs functions. And that's just one single cell. My background is in developmental biology, we have some mechanistic answers to how cells organize to maintain tissue polarity, but nothing really concrete.
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One thing I discovered recently is that genes form a 'gene regulatory network' that bears some analogy to neural networks. Genes are like neurons, each with inputs and outputs interconnected in a complex way between them, and the chemical messages they pass around are proteins. So there is a whole 'neural net' inside each cell - this information put cell complexity in perspective for me.