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blackbootz  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Share a picture of your workspace

    Rather they arise from how an organism chooses to respond to its environment. And it's in that choice, propagating by these underlying biochemical signaling networks, that one can begin to understand how a disease has the effect that it does.

Really? So a lot of diseases aren't actually species of invading bacteria or viruses but the body gone awry? Typing that out now it seems logical, like I know cancer is such a normal-behavior-gone-awry.

Lords work, thundara.





thundara  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    So a lot of diseases aren't actually species of invading bacteria or viruses but the body gone awry?

The ones that aren't caused by external factors of course. And yeah, cancer is one disease where cells change their programming. Auto-immunity and many neurodegenerative disorders would be others where (I think) intracellular signaling goes awry.