We might call the academic-bureaucratic biomedical research apparatus “the blob”. Think of it as a distributed super-organism, like an amoeboid colony or swarm of eusocial insects. The blob is massive and inscrutable, impenetrable past a certain depth if you’re an outsider.| Markov Bio
The apparent rate of biomedical progress has never been greater.| Markov Bio
In a previous essay, I posed a question: has nature been exhausted of all its general biological laws, leaving us with only factoids to collect, or are there yet more general laws of biology to discover? If so, what form will they take?| Markov Bio