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Part 1: The Building Blocks of Life

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Revolutionary Biology
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Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells but it doesn’t matter how closely you look, you still won’t see them.
In fact, most of our cells are smaller than the width of a hair. To make sure that our bodies work correctly, our cells have to talk to each other – a pretty daunting task. So how do our cells communicate?

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Revolutionary Biology
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Jonathan Webb
Keywords
biology
biochemistry
life
science
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 28/10/2014
Duration: 00:05:29

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