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BBC: 'Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body' (20 Nov 2024)

Discussion in 'Other health news and research' started by Sasha, Nov 20, 2024.

  1. Sasha

    Sasha Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Wonder if this Human Cell Atlas could help us, given that it's mapping unknown stuff...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23829l8kzro
     
    Sasha, Nov 20, 2024
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  2. Jonathan Edwards

    Jonathan Edwards Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    This is marketing rather than science, @Sasha. Any grown up scientist has known since student days that 'cell types' are just convenient rough groupings. Every cell is different in one way or another. Every brain cell has a different structure and function. People write this sort of stuff to sound clever and get awarded money for their research by others who play the same game. `we learn more gradually but there is no sudden new knowledge created by naming a new 'Project'.
     
    Jonathan Edwards, Nov 21, 2024
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    SNT Gatchaman Senior Member (Voting Rights) Staff Member

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    SNT Gatchaman, Nov 21, 2024
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    Creekside Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    An analogy might be making an atlas of all cities and claiming that it would lead to a new understanding of human society. Without all the details about who is in each city and all their interactions, there won't be any new understanding of society. The complexity of the interior of cells and all their interior interactions and exterior interactions probably rival the complexity of a city.
     
    Creekside, Nov 21, 2024
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