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Originally Posted by joe_smith
Being a molecular biologist what is your view on the life in the universe question?
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I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I am harbouring a lot of similar questions to molecular biologists. Such as:
- When are we going to progress past the spaghetti principle for developing pharmaceutical drugs? Right now, it seems to be all field trials and statistics that determine which drugs are effective and which aren't. How about actual cause and effect?
- At what generation of cell division after intial fertilisation (4, 8, 16, 32,…., 4069 cells, etc) do cells decide who becomes a skin cell, a liver cell, a nerve cell etc, and how do they communicate this among each other, having all the exact same genenic information after all?
- Knowing that you understand a few (maybe even a lot of) individual mechanisms of cell biology, do you concede that you haven't got the faintest clue as to how the whole comes together as a system?
Cheers
Steffen.