Thank you Siddhartha, Walter & CNN. So appreciative of the fact that your definition of "news" is broad, positive, and deeply educational. Amazing times we live in. Great interview, thanks from Bolivia!
I just started reading preface of the new book and am already excited. Love Dr Mukherjee's ability to explain very difficult concepts in an accessible way. I've been interested in the immune system since my doctoral work in 1996 and am still learning. Thank you for the great work.
In 2000 my Team and I at Mycogen Corp created a powerful adjuvant. We made a cellular encapsulated form of bovine interferon gamma that increased the activity of the cytokine 1000 fold which eliminated its harmful side effects with an increased efficacy at low microgram dose in cattle. No reason this won’t work in other animals including humans with the specific animal version. We were bought-out by a chemical company and 20 yrs later patents have expired and the invention remains shelved. Bovine interferon gamma Amended Recombinant Cells by Frank Gaertner et al is published in Vaccine 2009.
a beautiful interview of an extraordianry man whose elegant metaphors dance though his prose. I am half way thru the Songs of the Cell & Isaacson has illuminated the 2 overarching songs underpinning the title. thank you for these rich insights!
Super interesting and I def want to read it. However, I am not a fan of cell invasion techniques. It does not happen in nature and the unintended consequences and new life forms (that have a life of their own once they have left the genie’s bottle as it were) needs to be acknowledged. We should think long and hard about breaking the cell wall. And in the discussion of cancer and finding it’s cure the causes seem to be woefully missing. Which toxins in our environment are turning the cancer genes on? Polluters should be paying for cleanup and work on not polluting! Please let us have a sane world.
Cell invasion does not happen in nature? Do you mean going into/ invading the cell? Because molecules 'invade' all of your cells constantly, it's essential for a cell to function, another example of 'breaking the cell membrane' in nature are virusses they all have to 'invade' a cell (and even cell core) to replicate,...you don't trust the science because it's not natural?
Regarding how only the cell understands how to read DNA.. I understand there are 3 basic biology laws: 1) evolution, 2) everything uses the same way of coding genetic information (the tree of life 16S-RNA/DNA), and genetic instruction can be transferred between organisms 3) all life is composed of cell(s). How does the cell know what to do with DNA? What are Siddhartha's thoughts on panpsychism, consciousness, and "Junk DNA"? For example, I find it remarkable that using only 4 letters, human DNA only has 3 billion base pairs, and much of it looks like messy assembly-code.. some parts seem to do nothing, other parts are copy-paste from something else, etc. And all of this code will make for about 500 naturally occurring amino-acids. Even more astounding is that all life forms as we know it, from a fish to a banana, only draws upon ~20 of these amino acids to make proteins! So the basic building blocks that generates all the wild diversity of life we see on earth seems minuscule! BTW, Sadhguru talks about a place (Kailash Manasarovar Lake) where there is life but not as we know it. Even ghosts/spirituality has a signature of what we know as life, but what comes in and out of that place is something entirely different!
Song of Cell, sounds like Bhagavad Gita. A combination of various processes combined to give the individuality an advice on reality as a process than a product.
I pitch my tent in camp science, but I like to go hiking in woo woo land sometimes. That being said, the following comment comes from a woo woo hike; After eating quite a volume of magic mushrooms, I had a journey that involved listening to the symphony of the universe. The song of the cell reminds me of that experience.
Dianne unless of course you weren't. The will to survive. Genes that make cells are switched on and of in the womb and one cause is what condition your host is in. Not quite as mind blowing as the concept of the universe. It is up there these days. Everything ends up being possible eventually. 🙄😨🕵👽
My gosh believe me it is bizarre Science shows cells song proceedings in complex system body. Without experience in cells body guys undermines true medicine. In this sense he hipotesy show he Not challatan more interesting in sell his book than in honest medicine proceedings.
Thank you Siddhartha, Walter & CNN. So appreciative of the fact that your definition of "news" is broad, positive, and deeply educational.
Amazing times we live in. Great interview, thanks from Bolivia!
I just started reading preface of the new book and am already excited. Love Dr Mukherjee's ability to explain very difficult concepts in an accessible way. I've been interested in the immune system since my doctoral work in 1996 and am still learning. Thank you for the great work.
I just finished the book. Mukherjee is the man. Great scientist and lucky for us- writer.
In 2000 my Team and I at Mycogen Corp created a powerful adjuvant. We made a cellular encapsulated form of bovine interferon gamma that increased the activity of the cytokine 1000 fold which eliminated its harmful side effects with an increased efficacy at low microgram dose in cattle. No reason this won’t work in other animals including humans with the specific animal version. We were bought-out by a chemical company and 20 yrs later patents have expired and the invention remains shelved. Bovine interferon gamma Amended Recombinant Cells by Frank Gaertner et al is published in Vaccine 2009.
Interesting scientific conversation, Thanks to both of you 🙏🙏
Owe literally every book he wrote... phenomenal science communication.
a beautiful interview of an extraordianry man whose elegant metaphors dance though his prose. I am half way thru the Songs of the Cell & Isaacson has illuminated the 2 overarching songs underpinning the title. thank you for these rich insights!
Danke, sehr interessanter vortrag🙏
Super interesting and I def want to read it. However, I am not a fan of cell invasion techniques. It does not happen in nature and the unintended consequences and new life forms (that have a life of their own once they have left the genie’s bottle as it were) needs to be acknowledged. We should think long and hard about breaking the cell wall. And in the discussion of cancer and finding it’s cure the causes seem to be woefully missing. Which toxins in our environment are turning the cancer genes on? Polluters should be paying for cleanup and work on not polluting! Please let us have a sane world.
Cell invasion does not happen in nature? Do you mean going into/ invading the cell? Because molecules 'invade' all of your cells constantly, it's essential for a cell to function, another example of 'breaking the cell membrane' in nature are virusses they all have to 'invade' a cell (and even cell core) to replicate,...you don't trust the science because it's not natural?
The song of the cell was a masterpiece love Sidds style
Regarding how only the cell understands how to read DNA.. I understand there are 3 basic biology laws:
1) evolution,
2) everything uses the same way of coding genetic information (the tree of life 16S-RNA/DNA), and genetic instruction can be transferred between organisms
3) all life is composed of cell(s).
How does the cell know what to do with DNA? What are Siddhartha's thoughts on panpsychism, consciousness, and "Junk DNA"?
For example, I find it remarkable that using only 4 letters, human DNA only has 3 billion base pairs, and much of it looks like messy assembly-code.. some parts seem to do nothing, other parts are copy-paste from something else, etc. And all of this code will make for about 500 naturally occurring amino-acids. Even more astounding is that all life forms as we know it, from a fish to a banana, only draws upon ~20 of these amino acids to make proteins! So the basic building blocks that generates all the wild diversity of life we see on earth seems minuscule!
BTW, Sadhguru talks about a place (Kailash Manasarovar Lake) where there is life but not as we know it. Even ghosts/spirituality has a signature of what we know as life, but what comes in and out of that place is something entirely different!
I thought it was a play on Whitman's "Song of Myself" -- song of my cell
Song of Cell, sounds like Bhagavad Gita. A combination of various processes combined to give the individuality an advice on reality as a process than a product.
Thanks.
I pitch my tent in camp science, but I like to go hiking in woo woo land sometimes. That being said, the following comment comes from a woo woo hike;
After eating quite a volume of magic mushrooms, I had a journey that involved listening to the symphony of the universe. The song of the cell reminds me of that experience.
Thank you for sharing your comments with those of us who will never have that experience. Seriously!
@@briobarb8525 I hope that if you desire it, the experience becomes available to you.
Interesting book, sounds like a good read. Science can definitely lead to physical improvements to the human species living in an imperfect world.
By writing this book on cells and their importance for genes, Dr. Mukherjee is demonstrating his clear anti-virus bias.
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@@nancyroberts1668 With the ubiquity of craziness in society today, satire--even my bad attempt at satire--is lost. I was trying to be funny. :)
So what comes first feelings or thought.
The New Human Are we replacing ourselves.????
Dear Sid Let’s have lunch
Can communication between, neucleic dna &mitrochonrial dna, in a Eucarotic cell, decide the health quality of human being.
Can external factors through our sensing organs, change the rhythm of cellular song?
Read my book which will,talk the changes from life. I am also a cancer doctor
So will we have enough DNA to sustain the species
So are we replacing ourselves
Artificial teeth artificial teeth joints Organs
But tell me why do I are? Because you were cared for
Why do you care because you were cared for.
Dianne unless of course you weren't. The will to survive. Genes that make cells are switched on and of in the womb and one cause is what condition your host is in. Not quite as mind blowing as the concept of the universe. It is up there these days. Everything ends up being possible eventually. 🙄😨🕵👽
My gosh believe me it is bizarre Science shows cells song proceedings in complex system body. Without experience in cells body guys undermines true medicine. In this sense he hipotesy show he Not challatan more interesting in sell his book than in honest medicine proceedings.
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Please translate into English?