03/09/2026
“Life…is not built like a machine but is instead fluid, improvisational, and brimming with creative possibilities.”
The body is amazing!
We once thought of living cells as precise molecular factories. In reality, the cell is much more like an improvising jazz ensemble.
The old dogma of one gene, one protein, one function, has collapsed.
Molecular biologist Ewa Grzybowska argues that recent discoveries show that proteins can switch folds, shift shapes, or even remain gloriously unstructured, improvising their roles as they go.
Life, it turns out, is not built like a machine but is instead fluid, improvisational, and brimming with creative possibility.
Tap here to read more. https://iai.tv/articles/organisms-are-musicians-not-machines-auid-3436