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What the season of fall – and science – teaches us about life and death

  • Written by Samer Zaky, Research Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
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I was launched as one; and ended up being trillions of them. The cells composing my body are amazing micro-machines; one hundred of them can fit into the period at the end of this phrase. Regardless of my awareness, each of these teeny tiny units strictly performs its own...

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