Phoebe
I've been very hopeful so far
Now for the first time I think we're going wrong
Hurry up and tell me this is all a dream
Or could we start again, please?
Now for the first time I think we're going wrong
Hurry up and tell me this is all a dream
Or could we start again, please?
She nodded at his observation about hair growth, and she had a hypothesis ready for it. ”Yes, it grows, but it comes from the head, not of its own accord. I suspect there is something under the skin that is producing these hair cells and pushing them out. But…well cadavers are rather hard to come by and I don’t think anyone really wants me to scalp them just so I can figure out how hair grows.” she said with a light laugh. A morbid joke perhaps, but when you were in her field, things tended to get a bit morbid.
”I haven’t gotten around to naming all of them yet, but Professor Nathan is from a world where they had studied cells in great detail.” she said, flipping to the plant cell picture again. ”This green fluid he says is called chlorophyll, and these little circular things around the edge are called chloroplasts. They help convert sunlight into energy for the plant, rather like how we consume food to energize us.” she explained.
He called the cells fascinating and she positively beamed. ”I am glad you think so! Everyone else seems to just be perplexed to the point of disinterest by them. I am hoping if we can better understand these cells, then we can better understand how the body functions, and from there develop better techniques and medicines for treatment of illnesses and injuries.” she explained.
