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		findthewords 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An unprecedented window into how diseases take hol... Thankfully biology has redundancy, so a single cosmic bit flip does not send humans into a BSOD.

tsoukase 24 days ago [–]

In biomed sciences we rarely refer to the huge amount of resiliency of living organisms. They are so robust, stable and self healing that it would need a fleet of human made machines to cover the basic difficulties.

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