8/28/2023 0 Comments Cows phenomena medical![]() ![]() The immune system is one of those things we think we have figured out, no doubt accelerated by all of the work done on the AIDS virus in the recent past, but a recent article in The Scientist was so mind-blowing, I am pretty convinced that we still don’t know much.Īs faithful readers know, in the first of my many previous lives I was occupied as a clinical psychologist (preparation for dealing with engineers on a full time basis in my current life). Clearly, the list of what we do know or think we know is dwarfed by what we don’t. Understanding the function of each of the vast number of combinations will take generations to complete. ![]() James Watson and Francis Crick defined DNA only a half century or so ago, and it took another 50 years to rush to a sequencing of the genome. Our bodies, especially our minds, are the most complex machines in the universe, and I suspect that since the medical science is so new, each new discovery about this human mechanism is almost pioneering. If you have kept up with these columns, you will see a pattern of the “Holy Cow” phenomena and predict, at least for me, that the unexpected comes from the realm of the biological sciences, especially medicine. However, every once in a while, I am astounded, completely taken off guard by something that is totally unexpected. I actually expect anti-gravity, and I will only be surprised at the mechanism when it is solved. I have followed technology for a very long time, watched the promise delivered on proteomics, genomics, stem cells, chirality, room temperature superconductors, shape memory alloys, polymers, 3D-TV, man-made diamonds, advance coating, and nanoparticle everything. I pretty much expect everything imaginable to be possible and simply expect innovation and advancement as due course. (“Children” is surprisingly appropriate given the current generation of young people whose primary effort in life seems to be focused on extending their childhood into middle age.) I don’t find Jackass amusing, and I have lost a bit of my golly-gee-whiz enthusiasm for new technology. My sense of humor is numb, according to my 20-something children. At 62 years old, I am pretty hard to surprise - or shock for that matter.
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