“There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.” ThinkingKindTermWonderfulColdDiseaseNormalIncrediblesCancerCellsWonderful ThingsRemindersDuality Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.” FeelsRealCultureSexSpaceVisionOur LivesStrangeColorNormalEverydayCellsFragmentsStainsSpace BetweenLeaksLifelessNeurons Author:Sallie Tisdale
“For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It's one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we've known this since the time of Greek mythology.” HumansBodyCan DoInterestingKnownNormalMythologyCellsGreekOrgansStemGreek MythologyHuman BodyLiverStem CellGreek Myth Author:Sangeeta N. Bhatia
“The challenge is that if you stimulate your immune system, it might get over-stimulated. And it might actually start causing harm to normal cells in your body. So we have to work a balance between attacking the cancer and not attacking yourself.” IfsBodyMightChallengesBalanceNormalCancerHarmYour BodyCellsGet OverAttackingImmuneImmune System Author:Tyler Jacks
“Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.” MenChildrenMadeTwoRunningAgeReadingLostProcessNormalAverageCellsEggsCopiesGuardian Author:Robert Winston
“[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I was pretty sure that whatever was buzzing against my thigh was not normal. For one thing, it was ringing. Ben dragged his mouth away from mine and mumbled a curse that was a little shocking and kind of hot. "Ignore it," he said. That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.” IfsWorldWantKindLittlesSaidWholeHomeRunningFeltEasyOne ThingMinesKissingNormalMouthsThirdsHotPhonesConnectedWhole WorldCellsCurseTonightShockingCell PhoneThighsHome RunWirelessHens Author:Rosemary Clement-Moore