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by hoffcoder 2930 days ago
This was written in 2009. Perhaps one can be kinder to the author in his pleading that looking at cells as individual entities was not getting adequate research focus. Also, things like changes after organ donation do not yet have any scientific explanation.
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> This was written in 2009. Perhaps one can be kinder to the author in his pleading that looking at cells as individual entities was not getting adequate research focus.

It wasn't that underresearched in 2009 either, however. Microbiology has always been an active field.

> Also, things like changes after organ donation do not yet have any scientific explanation.

Yes, because it's very hard to prove a negative.

> This was written in 2009. Perhaps one can be kinder to the author in his pleading that looking at cells as individual entities was not getting adequate research focus.

What does the first sentence have to do with the second? What's changed since 2009 that would be relevant?