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Following amputation of the head, with the elimination of the head organizer (HO), HA and HI gradients would be destined to disappear. But since HA is more stable than HI (HA half-life = 36 h, HI half-life = 3.2 h), the formation of a new organizer, able to restore the morphogenetic gradients, will be induced. This will ensure the differentiation o
... See morePier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Why, of all possible worlds, this colossal and apparently unnecessary multitude of galaxies in a mysteriously curved space-time continuum, these myriads of differing tube-species playing frantic games of one-upmanship, these numberless ways of “doing it” from the elegant architecture of the snow crystal or the diatom to the startling magnificence o
... See moreAlan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
One of the first humans to release such creatures into the datasphere ocean was named Tom Ray
Dan Simmons • Rise of Endymion
Die Zellen »interpretieren« die DNA in einer Art Konsens-Verfahren, sagt Kirschner – aber sie gehorchen ihr nicht.
Andreas Weber • Alles fühlt (German Edition)
In The Wizard and the Prophet, Lynn Margulis is indeed quoted as comparing humans to bacteria in a petri dish, warning that humanity could overrun the planet and exhaust its resources, leading to collapse. Charles C. Mann opens the book with a quote from Margulis, whom he admires as “one of the most important biologists in the last half century,” a
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