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Vignettes that reveal how numbers serve as a sixth sense to understanding our cells
>> Size and Geometry Introduction Cell Biology by the Numbers --> Size and Geometry Introduction Reader Mode In this chapter, all of our vignettes center in one way or another on the simple question of “how big”. J. B. S Haldane, when he wasn’t busy with inventing population genetics or formulating the theory of enzyme kinetics (among many other things), wrote a delightful essay entitled “On being the right size”. There, he discusses how size is critical in understanding functional constraints on animals. For example, Haldane notes that when a human steps out of water, because of surface tensi
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