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by thaumasiotes 27 days ago
> It's not just your organs; your entire being is like that.

Actually, it bears pointing out that significant parts of you, like your blood, remain single-celled even though you're "multicellular".

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Immune system is mostly single cells
True. And also amazing how complex their interactions can be! Just because immune cells are often individually motile, does not mean they're not intimately interoperating within an incredibly complex social ecology of cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_cell is full of surprises.