This miniature factory takes in raw material, and through the utilization of power from the factory’s power generator, converts those raw materials into the many functional components, which will then be assembled to produce the factory’s output. And what is that output? What does this highly elaborate nano-factory produce? More cells! Every cell is ultimately a highly organized and efficient factory for making more cells! The Nobel biologist Francois Jacob expressed it rather poetically: ‘the dream of every cell, to become two cells’.
