• Question: What is you're favourite thing about cells?

    Asked by JessMc on 15 Oct 2025.
    • Photo: Ester Reina-Torres

      Ester Reina-Torres answered on 15 Oct 2025:

      I like to see cells as tiny people. Everything your body does, a cell can do. I guess it’s the influence of growing up watching “Once Upon a Time… Life”.

    • Photo: Genevieve Barr

      Genevieve Barr answered on 15 Oct 2025:

      Cells are so cool when you think about them as an entire, very tiny, ecosystem. There are so many proteins and molecules moving about inside every cell, each doing a specific role to keep the cell alive, dividing, and performing it’s specific, specialised function. It’s even cooler when we think about the fact that none of this is being ‘directed’ – your brain isn’t telling that protein what to do or where to go, it just does it! This is all driven by the shape, electrical charge, or other chemical features of biological molecules. I love how understanding how cells work brings biology and chemistry together.

    • Photo: Laura Durrant

      Laura Durrant answered on 17 Oct 2025:

      My favourite thing is that there are so many different types of cells in the human body, but they all share exactly the same DNA! They just use it in different ways to carry out their roles and functions. So for example, the DNA needed for liver cells to function would be ‘expressed’ in liver cells, but not in cardiac cells (and vice versa). It’s this very carefully orchestrated system that makes our bodies work!

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