Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism used in public discourse about science:
"the cell …palpated at the cardiomyocyte… stroked it all the way round, and then it was, it seemed to like it a lot…[another cell] reared up and …rushed off…one like[d] it and the other one didn't"
Professor Sian Harding
Professor Sian Harding (Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London) was talking on an episode ('Building the Body, Opening the Heart') of BBC's 'Start the Week'. Read 'Cells are buzzing cities that are balloons with harpoons'.
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Tags: cardiomyocyte, cells
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