Researcher: Smartest engineers would be “totally stumped” by a cell

structure of an animal cell/royroydeb (CC BY-SA 4.0)

From an article about Greg Johnson, a computer vision and machine learning researcher at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, on seeing inside living cells:

In short, understanding what cells look like on the inside — much less the myriad interactions among their parts — is hard even in the 21st century. “Think of a cell as a sophisticated machine like a car — except every 24 hours, you’ll have two cars in your driveway, and then four cars in your driveway,” said Greg Johnson, a computer vision and machine learning researcher at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. “If you found the smartest engineers in the world and said, ‘Make me a machine that does that,’ they would be totally stumped. That’s what I think of when I think of how little we know about how cells work.”

John Pavlus, “His Artificial Intelligence Sees Inside Living Cells” at Quanta

Hat tip: Heather Zeiger

See also: Yet another new type of intercellular communication discovered

and

Researcher asks, is the cell REALLY a machine?

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