The most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectronic microscopy datasets.
‘Cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.’
- by Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill.
Given unlimited resources, we still have no idea how to make a factory (or any system) that self-replicates without any detected conscious assistance, no matter how large it’s allowed to be, and no matter how much compute we put into it.
But cells are self-replicating molecular factories, and they’re smaller than a pixel on your phone.
And, when you really zoom in on them, it’s like the trippiest arrangement of molecules you can possibly imagine. Looks like a microscopic alien society.
Biologists are heroic for even trying to understand this.
-- Richard Behiel
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