What “life” can do
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 2, 2007
Assembla Blog discusses ” 4 Things Life Can Do that Engineers Can’t.”
1) Make something big by starting with something small and expanding each part
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2) Grow all of the differentiated parts of an organism, starting from a single cell, using only local cell-to-cell signaling.3) Make 100,000 proteins from 30,000 genes …
4) Make a brain with 100 billion neurons using 10,000 or so genes
An odd choice of things, isn’t it? I get a kick, though, out of the choice of words — what “life” (also called “the universe”) can do. Yeah, thank life.
