Discovering New Worlds in the Realm of the Cell Series: LIFE ITSELF: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF BIOLOGY Series Number: 1/5

The Washington Post | December 18, 1988| | Copyright

The frontiers of medical research, from cancer to the common cold, lie within the smallest unit of life -the living cell. As scientists probe the innermost workings of these building blocks of the human body, they are beginning to understand the nature of life itself.

One of the most profound mysteries ever contemplated by the mind-the nature of life and how it works-is beginning to yield to the probings of biologists who study individual cells at the molecular level.

Ancient philosophers and early biologists once invoked a mystical "vital force" that breathed life into ordinary matter; ...

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