We discovered that cell A A beautiful buoyancy engine. It swells like a hot air balloon and very much resembles a desalination plant. Aquaporins, (proteins that form pores in cell membranes), bring fresh water which has a lower density, it can suddenly skyrocket from 250 to 300 meters. It produces proteins then descends. Now this cell holds the world record for the longest cell migration. It is an object of 100 micron moving half a kilometer. When you do this in body length – I should be able to walk on the other side of the planet and come back. But it is a migration that the cell does in seven days.
What other characteristics of unique cells have you discovered?
Once we looked at this microbe LACRYMARIAR OLORhunting by stretch one’s neck Incredibly far – the equivalent of a 6 -foot human projecting his head 200 feet. We couldn’t understand how it could do this.
Then, when I was in Japan with my children, I was fascinated by these chocohine paper lanterns. I started wondering if real origami can occur on a cellular scale. I realized that this could be the architecture of the cell. We went to the laboratory and measured the hell of the cell, and boom! – It was exactly what we thought. In this case, the question came first. It can be fanciful in many ways, and the response deep below had a phenomenal biology.
Your approach to curiosity focusing is the fundamental or fundamental science, which is not prosecuted for the application. What do you want the public to know about the importance of fundamental science?
Most of the challenges we face in society, with their roots, are because we do not have a fundamental understanding of the processes with which we play. In medicine, each medication that has ever been invented has been to try to mix with something on which we do not have the catch. When we create solutions using only the knowledge that is on the shelf, we end up being incredibly limited on what we can do, at what price and at what scale.
These are not investments. It is much deeper in each of us. Basic science is not at the service of something, but the bases that are the whole foundation of our society.
So how do you form a recreational biologist?
You buy rubber boots for them, and you bring them to the depths of the ocean or swamps or glaciers, and you teach them to observe. You give them the freedom to ask original questions without worrying about whether they are useful to someone else, and they will start to see things that they had never done before.
We must all be allowed to enter the mysteries of the living world, but people are moving away from it. They say they found the science boring or dull, or it was not their cup of tea, or they are not good in this area. But science is everything. It is each emotion, everything you have experienced and our whole existence in the world. We have removed almost everyone from the wonder of the living world. Recreational biology, for me, is a response to the way we bring that.
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