Proteins, Explained
You are, quite literally, a machine made of proteins. This is the story of how tiny folded chains keep you alive.
Your Body Builds Itself. But How Does It Know What to Make?
One cell. 37 trillion outcomes. Here’s the system running it all. You started as one cell. Not a particularly special looking one either. Just a tiny sphere, sitting there, with no obvious signs that it was about to do something quite insane. Because from that one cell came a brain, a spine, two eyes in exactly the right place, ten fingers, and a heart beating on the correct side of your chest. The same outcome, repeated across every human who…