#dendritic cell is who i wish to be

[heckthis-heckallofthis]

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🦠 Neutro-2145 Follow

B Cell hasn't worked in a while, the bacteria tastes bland…

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❤️ IM1235 Follow

The neutrophils are so cool when they're saving the body! I should get them a gift to show my gratitude!

❤️ IM1235

Ok I just saw them rip out the insides of an infected cell, I don't think I can sleep tonight.

#oh my god #do they do that all the time???

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🧸 Dendri217 Follow

I don't think sewing lactic acid bacteria nearly everyday is good for my mental health, but it sure is fun! I need to go outside more I think

#lactic acid bacteria #my beloved #maybe I have too many of them #but you can never have too many lactic acid bacteria

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🎆 RegT59 Follow

As much as I love Helper T as a friend I wish he'd stop buying random things with our budget. He didn't even solve the Rubik's cube he bought last time, now he's buying those metal wire puzzles.

🎆 RegT59

He offered to get me something and I bought a conch shell just because it looked interesting. His bad habits are rubbing off on me.

#sigh #i should just stick to solitaire #our office is getting so cluttered

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⚪ Neutro-3033 Follow

The amount of people that don't know not all neutrophils enjoy eating bacteria or infected cells is wild. Have you tried to eat some?? It's terrible. Some of us only eat it because it's part of the job.

#i swear #its so annoying #at least the RBCS bring us stuff other than bacteria #i really wouldn't mind something less sweet

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✖️ Cross-TCell reblogged

🐦‍⬛ King-Killer

How do I tell my subordinates that I don't actually hate them and that I'm just strict and they need to stop being so sloppy? Believe me guys I like having you around please invite me to something I'm begging you

🐦‍⬛ King-Killer

That was a moment of weakness ignore that (please invite me please please please ple

🐦‍⬛ King-Killer

WHICH ONE OF YOU REBLOGGED THIS?? NOW ALL MY SUBORDINATES ARE CONSTANTLY BRINGING ME WITH THEM FOR LUNCH????

#its okay squad leader #we honestly just thought you'd be too busy to bother with us #so glad you actually do like us #the boys love you too

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🍸 Microfold108 Follow

What even is the point of living? If not just for the sake of a higher being we don't even know? Are they good? Are they bad? Maybe they're the nicest person in the world, maybe they're a serial killer who has murdered countless of their kind. Do they know we work only for them? Do they know how many of us love them?

🍸 Microfold108

Nevermind Dendritic cell came over with a lot of friends and he said they all enjoyed me so maybe there is more to life than that.

#i need to find an actual interest #maybe then I'll stop being so negative about everything

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🟩 HelperT31 Follow

Apparently you can just buy a house??? On Sellular?? I'm going to prank Reg T with this. It's going to be so funny, imagine I pull out a whole house right in front of the office, she'd go insane.

#nobody reblog this I can't let reg t see this #itll ruin the surprise

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🗡️ NatKiller095 Follow

Non-immune cells are literally so scary, how do you socialize everyday without getting tired or stressed out??? What do you MEAN you think us murdering cells is scarier?? At least I don't have to go around the ENTIRE body just to hand over a box of gases to someone I barely know!

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I agree!! How else would you relieve stress if you can't straight up explode? I would rather die than have to deal with that everyday, I'm so glad parasitic infections are rarer than bacterial and viral infections.

#non immune cells #im sorry for exploding your houses all the time but you guys genuinely terrify me

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I love working on the skin! So many beautiful women up here! Way better than working for that insane idiot boss in the alimentary tract

#talking about helper T cell #he sucks so bad #wont let me live my life for just 5 minutes #i do really miss reg t tho #she was way better than helper T

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🪄 Mast92 Follow

The reason why Cellor-sun was so adamant about saving her friends despite risking her life to do so was because if she didn't she risked the Natchlor absorbing her powers and in turn causing the destruction of the whole vessel. Yes she loves her friends but she needed to take the risk, it was a big part of the plot, how do people not see that the first time they watched??

Also I hate how they forcefully gave Cellor-sun a love interest. Soma was an interesting character as Cellor-sun's new companion but they didn't have to force the love interest trope on him. I feel like the trope was so one dimensional, like two different people wrote him. The Cellor-sun I know would never instantly fall in love with someone like that! Their arc was literally 20 minutes long!!! She has high standards and yet just happened to meet someone who has all those exact standards??? Where do you find a cell that happens to be into all your interests, mesh well with your friends, and don't mind that you are a magical girl constantly risking your life for the sake of the vessel?? Soma would've been fine if he was just a friend of Cellor, he could've been her love interest, just stretch it out realistically. He has interesting powers that interact well with the rest of the cast, I really just wish his arc with Cellor would've been written better. Whoever wrote that needs to post a public apology right now.

#cellor-sun against the univessel #cellor-sun #soma-san catu #i could've written it better for real #catu

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[adorufa]

Daily reminder for everyone to watch Hataraku Saibou (Cells at Work)

You won't regret it.

[thelittlecookiecat]

How (I imagine) Red Blood Cell and Band Cell find out U1146 likes to sing:

Band cell was assigned to patrol near the dendrite (dendritic cell's post). On his way there, he suddenly he sees a familiar figure passing by

Band Cell: Oh! Hey Miss RBC!

RBC looks around, finding the source of the voice and sees Band Cell

RBC: Oh hey there Band Cell!

Band Cell: It's nice to see you again! I'm sorry, am I keeping you from making your deliveries?

RBC: No, not at all! I just finished my deliveries a minute ago. I'm on my way to the cafeteria to buy some food.

Band Cell: Oh I see, by any chance are you going to be passing by the dendrite?

RBC: Yeah, I am! Why do you ask?

Band Cell: I'm headed that way too! Do you mind if I tag along with you?

RBC: Sure! I could use the company!

They chatted about everything they could think of as they made their way to the dendrite. Dendritic Cells spots them as they were walking towards his post.

Dendritic Cell: Hey there you two, care to join me for some tea, sandwiches and cookies?

RBC: I would love to

Band Cell: I guess I could join in as well

As Dendritic Cell prepares their food, RBC spots a book on the table. She picks it up and realizes it was a photo album of the WBCs. She then opens the album and flips through the pages

RBC: You sure do like keeping pictures of other cells, don't you, Dendritic Cell?

Dendritic Cell: I do. I like to hold on to the memories. Plus, they serve as inspiration for young cells like Band Cell and motivation for mature cells like his senpais

He places the food on the table, sits down and fills their cups with tea as he asks

Dendritic Cell: By the way, I haven't seen U1146 around. Is he okay?

RBC: Now that you mention it, I haven't seen him in a while

Both RBC and Dendritic Cell turn to Band Cell

Band Cell: He's fine. He's just working hard this past couple of days. I have to admit though, he needs to take a break once in a while

RBC: *chuckles lightly* That sounds very much like him. Though i wish there was some way we could make him take a break and just have fun

RBC and Band Cell sigh. Dendritic cell finishes drinking his tea and responds

Dendritic Cell: I have an idea! Why don't you take him and his friends out for some karaoke? I think he'll enjoy that

RBC: I didn't know he liked to sing!

Band Cell: Yeah, he doesn't look like the type of person who enjoys singing. Are you sure taking him out for karaoke is a good idea?

Dendritic Cell smiles and motions for RBC to give him the album. He flips through the pages then finally finds what he is looking for and shows them a picture of U1146 singing (if you've read the manga, you'll know what this picture looks like...but i'll put it here just in case )

Dendritic Cell: I'm sure *smiles*

Meanwhile, somewhere in the body, U1146's receptor suddenly pings

U4989: There's no bacteria here, is your receptor broken?

U1146: I don't think so...

Suddenly a shiver makes it's way through his body. He drops to the floor, shivering, with legs to his chest, arms around his knees and his eyes wide open

U4989: What the heck is wrong with you?!?

U1146: I got the chills, I feel like someone is trying to see the embarassing stuff I've done in the past!

[devintrinidad]

Aw those hcs are adorable! 

I like that green tea is such a staple for 1146 even cells who know him treat getting accepted by him like a pet owner does when their cat bring them a dead animal offering. At least he brings them tea instead of a dead germ. XD

I’m now being reminded of the S1 ending where Platelet sits on top of 3803’s cart. Only replace it with NC now. I can imagine all the weird looks they get when she’s carting around adult Normal Cell like he’s a child. Neither of them care. NC probably just gives off a smug ‘you wish a strong pretty girl would give you a ride on her cart all over the body’ (and he’s right. Some are jealous). But I also see Leader Platelet come running after them because she’s used to 3803 doing that for her too. Instead of making NC leave, Leader Chan plops gerself in his lap all three go on a adventure together (3803 is a disaster and curiosity magnet so eventually things could always get wild). 

It’s funny to think NC is in fact very protective of her. But because he’s a Normal Cell now he’s much weaker then her. She ends up acting more protective over him and carrying him around when he can’t walk. That or she gives him piggy back rides.  It probably takes him awhile to get used to this new reversal. But then he’s like 'eh she’s caring about me and that’s all that matters’. He definitely still acts very protective but he’s more of the nagging type like 5100. But he does it more grumpily. He’s actually bonded with 5100 when it comes to worrying about 3803 (which is pretty ironic). The only difference is he focuses more on how tough she is too and likes it when 3803 goes off the beaten path and does things a RBC isn’t known to do. Since 5100 thinks so little outside the box, NC also sasses her but she sasses right back and then they can squabble (in a non hostile way that never goes to the levels he and 1146 squabbles can) about how she thinks 3803 should just do as expected of her. While NC praises 3803 for doing more then what’s expected of her and even uses the time she called the Calvary on Cancer as an example (which is also ironic). 

Lol, 1146 takes awhile to figure out he’s not over senstive about NC acting affectionate with 3803 because of the past (at least post finally accepting NC in their lives by giving him tea). He’s just straight up jealous and territorial. He’d hate any guy kissing her on the cheek. 3803 doesn’t mind because she actually gets that NC is not doing this out of romance (he’s just as dumb if not dumber then 1146 when it comes to that). Granted she knows he has a crush. But he’s also still very affection starved and not very good at getting social norms. He’s trying his best though and these days wouldn’t dare do anything to upset her. After awhile she notices 1146’s sheer grumpiness and NC tells her he’s upset he’s too shy to kiss her cheeks too. 3803 being 3803 quickly tells 1146 what NC told her and she informs him 'of course  he can kiss her cheek too’. She waits for him to kiss her cheek but he just stands there frozen like all the life got sucked out of him. NC is trying not to laugh out loud. 3803 gets tired of waiting so - thinking it might help - she gives a quick kiss on the cheek to 1146. Then his clothes explodes off him as his face turns more red then her hair. Normally NC would get a little jealous but even he’s in a little awe by the reaction. 0_0

Normal Cell would cry tears of joy that NC managed to find two friends. That’s a lot more then he expected. He’d be such a busybody like that overly enthusiastic momma bear who’s so proud and invested in her child. NC would stop him from getting too excited over 3803 being his girlfriend because she’s not. Normal Cell also shows 1146 all of NC’s most embarrassing photos because he sees 1146 as a nice upstanding guy who is like NC’s best friend. 1146 is polite enough to leave before laughing his head off and subtly making fun of NC about it later. That’s the quickest way to get NC to behave once he realizes all the blackmail ammo 1146 has on him.

 Aw, I bet 1146 gives the best hugs to 3803. He just envelopes her into his big arms and she feels so safe and warm in them. Sometimes when he’s particularly happy or sentimental, he sweeps her off her feet for a tight hug while she laughs. 

I can imagine 1146 just has his iconic dour face when he’s carrying them and thinking he’s the only adult in this trio.

NC would make fun of 1146 for liking boring vanilla best. 1146 would defend his choice saying it’s vanilla Bean! Very different from ordinary vanilla. Then he’d point out lemon suits NC just fine because they’re both so sour to deal with. 

Aw NC trying his best to find a good dynamic with 1146 and 1146 leaving to cool off instead of exploding at him. They’d definitely have a ways to go and NC would be grateful deep down how patient and kind 1146 really is with him. The sass will always remain but NC is definitely forcing himself to learn how to not hurt others when previously that’s what his entire existence was about. NC probably cried once when he accidently made 1146 REALLY upset. Then 1146 ended up getting flustered and giving NC way more treats then he could consume in one sitting because those tears would stop coming. That’s their weird dynamic. 

NC will never stop treating 3803 like a queen. Making her happy is the one thing that eases his guilt a little. She definitely sees herself acting like a big sister for him and always accepting his gifts. She’ll pat him on the head and hope someday he’ll hate himself a little less for a life he hadn’t picked. Her forgiveness is the one thing that helps him sleep at night. 

As much as NC would never admit it, he doesn’t want to ever move out of Normal Cell’s apartment. He knows he’ll get lonely without his creator and sees him as a security blanket despite all his visible annoyances over said mentor’s clingy ways. He’ll probably treat Normal Cell’s next clone like that annoying younger sibling he never asked for and is his mortal enemy by birth (you know in a normal sibling way). 

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Hahaha, now I’m getting images of 1146 covered head to toe in blood while dragging around the mutilated remains of a bacterium for his friends. It’s somewhat adorable but also terrifying. 

That’s a great callback! I actually wanted to reference that time in 3803/NC’s relationship back in RBA (basically one of the first times they meet and 3803 saves Cancer by running for her life with Cancer hanging on for dear life in her cart). But the reference to the season one ending is also a great detail! And yes, Leader Platelet (and a few of the other platelets), also like to ride on 3803′s cart. 

(Sometimes, other RBCs will get their own platelets and they’ll go have races around the body). 

I am living for the friendship with NC and 5100. Although I’m pretty sure 5100 will never know the true story behind the kidnapping and NC’s true origins, they will surely bond over 3803. (But let’s face it, NC gets 3803 roped up in his shenanigans and it’s up to 5100, 4201, or 1146 to bail them out. And no. NC regrets nothing). 

Protective NC is best NC, even when he’s being a sassy little child when doing so.

1146′s CLOTHES EXPLODE??? HEHAHAHAHAH! 3803 is left mystified while Dendritic Cell swoops in for a few photos. 

(NC pays Dendritic Cell with a few humorous stories of 1146 in exchange for a few photos... to which Normal Cell promptly sticks into his budding scrapbook for NC).

1146 gives the best hugs. Sometimes, when he swoops 3803 in his arms, he sees NC looking off to the side, an angry blush on his cheeks. 1146 isn’t one to gloat, but that’s probably what he’s doing when he sees the look on NC’s face. 

(Don’t worry... some day down the line, 1146 hugs him... but they will never admit it). 

If there’s anyone interested in the Abnormalities verse and also happens to be an artist or likes to doodle... please draw grumpy 1146 holding his two friends like they’re a sack of grapes? Please? It would make my day, haha. 

Hehehe, I gave NC lemon flavor because of his “lime green eyes”. But he is definitely pretty sour to begin with.

Aw NC trying his best to find a good dynamic with 1146 and 1146 leaving to cool off instead of exploding at him. They’d definitely have a ways to go and NC would be grateful deep down how patient and kind 1146 really is with him. The sass will always remain but NC is definitely forcing himself to learn how to not hurt others when previously that’s what his entire existence was about. NC probably cried once when he accidently made 1146 REALLY upset. Then 1146 ended up getting flustered and giving NC way more treats then he could consume in one sitting because those tears would stop coming. That’s their weird dynamic.

^^^ I won’t expand on it, because you worded it better than I ever could. You broke their relationship into their barest essentials. 

Oooohhhh, I love the image of 3803 patting him on the head. While NC isn’t that much taller than 3803, the height difference is still apparent. I can just imagine that whenever NC gets really down or especially guilty, he hunches over himself, becomes smaller, and bows his head (reminiscent of his first reincarnation as a child trying to hide from the big, bad immune cells). When 3803 sees this, she immediately goes into mother/big sister mode and starts patting his head and smoothing his locks. Maybe she even kisses him on the forehead/cheek (depending on how she’s still dealing with the trauma). 

After that, NC beams at her, but doesn’t sass or say anything. 

He’s content with what she has given him.

Hehehe, I bet Normal Cell has to explain that there are rules and regulations to this sort of thing. So, they compromise. NC and Normal Cell will live on the same floor of their apartment complex and NC gets to visit whenever he wants. 

(He totally comes over every day just to annoy his younger sibling). 

Thanks for the lovely add ons! They were really cute and adorable! :D

[elejah-verse]

R u Mine?/4

Fanfiction drabble

Alternative Universe TVD9 S13

ElijahxElena

Warning: smutty, 18 +

@rissyrapp20 @dendrite-lover @cassienoble2000 @captainshurley @goddessofthunder112 @hides2000

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“Klaus and Caroline finally left”- Elijah said now as he entered the kitchen of the Mikaelson hideaway.

“Oh, good. I really don’t know if I could have taken another bickering moment between those two.”- Elena now sipped a bit of the blood-wine, and then grabbed a cherry-chocolate muffin from the table, taking a big bite.

“I know exactly what you mean. I really wish they get it together, because now it is beyond tedious. Here”- Elijah now saw a bit of butter cream left on the side of her lips, removing it with his thumb, drawing down her lips, giving her a sultry look. He then licked the thumb off, his eyes smirking delectably at the doppelganger. 

“Sweet, right?”- Elena said.

Elijah gulped a little nodding. 

“Very”- he then said suggestively.

Elena now put the muffin aside and smiling cheekily, she now came up to her Original boyfriend-

“Since you put up with my overbearing friend this weekend and her love drama- you deserve a little treat.”

“Oh, I do?”- let out looking down at his darling doppelganger girlfriend.

“You do”- Elena’s hands now landed on Elijah’s jeans, unzipping them.

Continuing to talk, she tugged them down, palming his already hardened cock. ”Did I tell you that I love that you now continue wearing jeans, despite you getting all your memories back - though I so like you in the suits as well”

“Yeah-?”- Elijah muttered with a little throaty grunt escaping his lips.

Elena’s hot breath against his lips had him now pleading with his eyes, arching his hips upward. He wanted inside her mouth. 

The doppelganger smiled crouching down, enveloping his hardness with her lips. The Original shut his eyes as she now drew him deeper in her mouth.

Elijah groaned, sending his blood racing higher as Elena’s tongue twirled around his tip again. He shuddered as she now sucked him whole in. Elijah's hand clutched the thick brown strands of her hair as she again darted her tongue over the head of his cock. And then she bobbed up and down, her lips sealing tighter as she neared the head. His every muscle stiffened, adding to the strain in his body. Every chord, every nerve and every cell in his body was ready to explode. Arching forward now with his hips, Elijah’s groans became more ragged and more louder as she pumped him faster and faster until he neared orgasm, coming hard, his whole body now convulsing delightfully.

“Fuck - this was good”- he murmured trying to gain some of his breath back, smiling at the doppelganger, who brushed a bit of the come from her lips.

“Sweet”- Elena said looking at the Original with a smirk.

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[datura-foxglove]

I wish luck to all of Atsushi's enemies (and lover) for having to deal with an overprotective cat dad. Does Natsume have blackmail on everyone because of his cat soldiers?

Lol it makes you wonder if I Am Cat is basically an Ability to get help from the feline species. But I think he got dirt on everyone lololol either because of his cat ninjas or because of his supposed to be omniscient Ability.

I wonder if he is like the Dendrite Cell on Cell at Works! who had a lot of albums full of blackmail photos of everyone doing embarrassing things. Like Kunikida drooling on his sleep, Tanizaki being dressed as a maid by Naomi, Yosano trying a dominatrix costume out of curiosity, Fukuzawa secretly visiting a cat cafe, etc.

[adreamneverends]

Voltron CrossOver Cells at Work!

Shiro As a White Cell  (get it ? for White although now also the role of  Helper T Cell fits him as well  ) 

Pidge As a Red Blood Cell (who wished she could be a Dendritic  or a Mast Cell )(plus i am shidge so i find U-1146, White Blood Cell and  AE3803, Red Blood Cell ADORABLE 

Kuron as a Cancer Cell 

Keith As a Killer T Cell 

Lance As a  B Cell 

Allura As a Macrophage  

Hunk As a  Regulatory T Cell (or a Platelet LOL) 

Coran As a Memory Cell 

Krolia As a Natural Killer Cell 

So i guess i will put Sam as a Helper T Cell 

[writing-frenzy]

Tsuna and Cells at Work.

this hit me where it hurts all of a sudden and now I need to note it out.

Sawada Tsunayoshi dies, in a world where he was never in the mafia, yet had memories of it because both Byakuran and Yuni were in on it, still trying to find his place in the world.

Only, he ends up not so much dying as everyone thought he did; he just got microscopic.

Cue Tsuna ending up in The Body; he is very much a confused. (it takes him a ridiculously long time to realize just where he is.

He thanks everything and anything he has flames, because Immune Cells are terrifying. 

Likewise, he is so glad he is a Sky, because he needs all flames on hand to get threw this shit.

Still wonders why everyone looks so human, but at this point he is not going to question it.

He helps where he can, being a sneaky little guy and using his hyper intution when needs must.

He may or may not have kidnapped a cancer cell.. or three...

He may or may not have accidentally fixed them..

He may or may not have a new found interest in medicine now.

He ends up friends with Red Blood Cell (RBC) and White Blood Cell (WBC), and gets lost even worst then her. 

Yet somehow, whenever he and RBC get together, they either find just where they need to go or get into ten times more trouble.

Of course he ends up getting found out eventually, what with being an actual body.

he runs away a lot, but still keeps in touch with his friends.

But then things get sad when the body, for real, starts dying.

He knows it, the cells all know it, but not one of them gives up.

It is only near the end, when Tsuna feels nothing else can be done, that he makes the offer, letting his voice be heard throughout the entire body

“Anyone who can still hear me, anyone still there, if you want to keep living, working, thriving, if you wish to still stay by each other’s sides and laugh and cry... Come with me to the Outside.”

oddly enough, no matter the world, Tsuna is still very good at public speaking. Every Cell that still can, goes with Tsuna outside into a whole new world

Humanized Cells are very, very noteworthy, and a bit hard to miss. Civilains wouldn’t accept them.

Tsuna doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry at actually following in Giotto’s footsteps and making a vigilante/mercenary/doctors without border like organization. he really doesn’t.

(Of course so many Cells would go into medicine; it is as fascinating as it is horrifying.)

(of course there is killing; Immune Cells live to kill and protect.)   

Some Cells gets Dying Will Flames; this will be as terrifying as you think.

Dendritic Cell(DC) is a Sun/Mist and knows so much; everyone is terrified, except Tsuna.

Macrophages are all Skies and are just as loyal to Tsuna as any other cell. This is even more terrifying then you think.

(many in the Varia have a crush. NK is also a Favorite.)

No one knows what to think of Tsuna’s group.

Everyone does on the other hand very much want an alliance with them (because good doctors are rare, but ones that can use their flames at the same time? yeah...)

Tsuna may not be a Mafia Boss, but damn does he have a place in the underground still. 

Tsuna may not know how this is his life, but sharing cookies with DC as  Macrophage gets some more tea, discussing the new medical technique recently discovered, he can’t help but enjoy it.

This is home for him.

[silverlab101]

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[blackheartsandcarparts-blog]

My Struggle

My counselors that I’ve had in the last year and a half suggested I should express what I’m feeling in some form. I finally decided to give in and give it a try. I’ll start off with a little back story before I jump straight in.

I’m 22 years old, currently enlisted in the military and battling depression/grief/stress and everything else that comes with it. Almost 4 years ago now my father told me he was diagnosed with cancer. I wasn’t given any information on it, except that he was receiving treatment. At this point in my life I had just graduated boot camp and started my schooling for the military. I was 1000 miles from home and couldn’t do anything. My father, who was also prior military, told me to focus on school instead of him. But how could I? My father, my best friend, the man I looked up to and the man who taught me everything I know was fighting something that could so easily take his life. What could I do? Sit there and feel sorry for myself? Be worried about my dad? No, he wanted me to finish this schooling and so I would do it just for him. In the process of this 6 month school I lost 80% of my class. Not once was I deterred from making my father proud as I followed in his footsteps.

Upon graduating my school I received orders to a base about an hour from home so I could be close by during his treatment. It was not until then that I found out the extent of his diagnosis. He was diagnosed with Blastic Plasmacytoid Cell Dendritic Neoplasm (BPCDN) which is an extremely rare form of Lymphoma with no cure. With how the cancer presents itself, to most doctors who are unaware it seems to be Leukemia. When doctors begin treating for Leukemia, there is no response and time is wasted. Because of how rare it is, there is not much literature or research. After diagnosis most patients who receive treatment and a stem cell transplant will achieve remission for about a year before it returns. This was the case with my father as well. After seeing him suffer through the chemo, the bone marrow biopsies and the pain, I was glad to see him mostly back to his old self. When you have a successful stem cell transplant they refer to it as your “new birthday” and have cake. The process is lengthy but they basically chemo you until you have absolutely no immune system, then give you healthy stem cells from a donor in hopes of the new one being able to fight it off.

During my father’s year long remission gave me memories that I will never forget. I was able to buy my first car on my own. He taught me how to drive stick on it and taught me how to work on it. My father taught me how to appreciate cars and sprouted my love for them. There were so many smiles, so many laughs and so much frustration (if you’ve ever worked on a car you will understand). Not that I didn’t have any great memories from before, but these were different. They were more profound to me, because after my father’s battle he had become himself again. A man I always aspired to be, but someone who he would never see me become. There are many more memories that occurred over this year, but I won’t dig into all of those.

He relapsed in March of 2015 and it was back more aggressive than before. Time in between chemo was shortened as it would return in his bone marrow much quicker. An opportunity arose for him to become part of a drug trial at Duke University, so we quickly jumped on it and headed down to North Carolina. For 6-7 months my father was never within “standards” to begin the trial. One of his blood counts would be slightly too low and it would get delayed. You couldn’t start the trial until there was at least a 2 week break from your last round of chemo. 6-7 long months of hoping and praying to hit the exact specifications of this drug trial and it never happened. Months before the fateful day of my dad passing, we went to an ice cream shop in NC that he had seen on TV. They served ice cream made with habenaros (named “cold sweat”) and another made with either ghost peppers or carolina reapers (called “exit wound”). We drove about 45minutes to get to this shop. He recorded my reaction to “cold sweat” (they wouldn’t let me eat exit wound without eating its predecessor first and I didn’t want to destroy my stomach by compounding it) and laughed as I suffered (it was pretty funny). And just a month before he left us, was my step mom’s birthday. We went to a restaurant called “The Angus Barn” which is voted top 5 steakhouses in the entire US. I ordered the absolute biggest steak they had on the menu, dubbed “The Tomahawk Chop”. It was a 44oz bone-in ribeye and I absolutely devoured it. My dad and step mom were amazed at my feat and we all laughed about it. We all decided to have dessert on top of it all, of course with an after dinner cappuccino. Later that night my father was back to being in terrible pain, barely being able to walk and a completely different person than the man I knew. That night was one of the last times I heard my dad laugh and saw him smile.

The days leading to my father’s last moments are very hard for me to talk about. Being there for it all has imprinted on me and haunts me. He was in so much pain that it took us an hour and a half to move him 20 feet to try and go to the bathroom. No person should have to deal with that. With that amount of pain, with that struggle and frustration. I could see it in his eyes, despite all of the pain management medication. I couldn’t take it and I called an ambulance in hopes the hospital could help him regain strength. (At this point I had already been in North Carolina for about 4-5days helping my step mom so she could relax and get some chores done. I was running low on sleep because I would stay up at night and give him his medication on time. Doing what needed to be done.) We slept at the hospital in the room with him. He was in less pain the next day, but still visibly not himself. They ran some tests and tried to get a handle on what was going on. The day after that I saw my father, not a man who just looked like him. He was there, back to normal and joking around like his old self. He was smiling and lit the room up just as he always had done. There was a small flash of hope, but then a complete and utter downward spiral. Doctors said there was nothing left they could do. Our plan quickly changed to try and get him home so he could be surrounded by family and be AT home. That soon became a non-option as he quickly declined. (This next part will be very hard for me to talk about and I know you can’t tell how long it will take to write, but believe me it is awhile. Having to take frequent breaks to either hold back the tears or letting them go.) The morning of February begins with my Aunt and I driving to the hospital at 7am. We walk into his hospital room with my step mom playing Jack Johnson (one of his favorite artists). He was not responsive and had very erratic breathing. We sat there and talked with him, we knew he could hear us. He had a constant stream of morphine to keep him comfortable. I held his hand to keep him warm. He was progressively getting worse and worse. I called my sister (who hadn’t talked to my father in years) and told her that I needed her to talk with him, the end was near. I put her on speaker and she apologized to him for their fight and being so estranged. I couldn’t let him pass and neither of them ever have closure or have regrets. I knew how much he missed her in his life and how he wished he had a relationship with her. I couldn’t have that weight on my shoulders of them not having closure. My step mom followed suit and called all of his brothers, sisters and his mom. Everyone told them how much they loved him and how strong he was. After we got through the phone calls my step mom got the nurse and told them that it was time. As we sat surrounding him, the nurse delivered a large dose of morphine, which started shutting down his organs. I knelt next to his bed and held his hand. We all told him “Its ok. You can let go now. We love you.” It was the absolute hardest thing I have ever done. How could I tell the person who means more than anything in the world to me that it was ok to go? It wasn’t ok. I couldn’t lose him. Not now. His breathing slowed and he opened his eyes. He looked me straight in my eyes and I could see him thanking me for calling my sister. Telling me how much it meant. Expressing how much he loved us all. Just seconds later I watched him take his finals breaths and he was gone… 10:53 on February 23rd, 2016.

Almost a year has passed now and it isn’t any easier. Everyday is a struggle. I don’t want to get out of bed, I don’t have the motivation to do anything. I probably drink more than I should, but I can’t escape the reality that he is gone. I have had nightmares of his final moments, waking up and I can’t breathe, just as he was no longer able to. I try and remember the good memories and I sometimes can, but his last moments on this planet are forever burned into my mind. I miss him more than anyone could understand. After losing him, I am no longer afraid of death. I welcome it. I welcome the day I am reunited with him and we can go back to normal. I will not seek death, but if it should find me then so be it. The thing that kills me absolutely more than anything in the world is thinking how he will never meet his grandchildren or great grandchildren. I know how excited he would have been and how involved in their lives he would’ve been. And how everyone is now missing out on those memories.

I miss talking to him. I used to call him almost everyday after work and just catch up. Talk cars, football or anything else to keep his mind off treatment.

I am fragmented. I am not the same person I used to be and I never will be. I will never be whole again and that is just a fact. How will I get through it? I don’t know, but I will do my best to document it as things happen.

I am not the only person to go through this, but I hope that I am able to help others with my experiences or even open up conversation between people. I do hope that if you are in a seriously dark place that you would seek help. There is no reason to ever be ashamed for doing so. All you need to do is ask.

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Can man ever build a mind?

The idea that we might create machines more intelligent than ourselves is not new. Myths and folk stories abound with creations such as the bronze automaton Talos, who patrolled the island of Crete in Greek mythology. These stories reflect a deep, atavistic fear that there could be other minds that bear the same relationship to us as we do to the animals we eat or keep as pets. With the arrival of artificial intelligence, the idea has re-emerged with a vengeance.

We are condemned to understand new phenomena by analogy with things we already understand, just as the anatomists of old named parts of the brain after fruit and nuts — the amygdala (almonds) and the olives, to name but two. Although Hippocrates, in the fourth century BC, had firmly placed the brain at the centre of human thought and feeling, most early medical authorities had little use for it.

Aristotle thought it was a radiator for cooling the blood. The importance of the brain, for Galen 500 years later, were the fluid cavities — the ventricles — in its centre, and not the tissue of the organ itself. With the rise of scientific method in the 17th century, the brain started to be explained in terms of the latest modern technology. Descartes described the brain and nerves as a series of hydraulic mechanisms. In the 19th century the brain was explained in terms of steam engines and telephone exchanges.

And in the modern era, of course, the brain is seen as a computer. And yet, others argue, any metaphor is deficient: we have never met brains before and lack the appropriate language or concepts. The human brain, it is suggested, will never be able to understand itself. You cannot cut butter with a knife made of butter, as a neuroscience friend recently said to me.

As a neurosurgeon, I have to accept that everything I am thinking and feeling as I write this is a physical phenomenon. Throughout my career I have seen patients who have suffered personality change (almost invariably for the worse) as a result of brain damage — it is difficult to believe in any kind of “mind” separate from the brain’s matter when you see your fellow human beings changed, often grotesquely, in this way. And yet it is a deeply counter-intuitive thought. I remember one of my patients, when I was operating on his brain under local anaesthetic, looking at the computer monitor that showed the view of his brain down the operating microscopic that I was using. “This is the part of your brain which is talking to me at the moment,” I told him, pointing with my instruments to the speech area of his left cerebral hemisphere. He was silent for a while, as he looked at his own brain. “It’s crazy,” he said.

The human brain, it is often stated, is the most complex structure in the known universe. It consists of some 85bn nerve cells, each of which is connected to many thousands of other nerve cells, with some 150tn connections. You can, however, if you wish, reduce it to something that sounds quite simple. Each nerve cell is an input/output device that processes data. The input is electrical stimulation (or inhibition) by the thousands of other nerve cells whose output limbs, called axons, are connected to it via one-way connections called synapses.

The human brain, it is suggested, will never be able to understand itself. You cannot cut butter with a knife made of butter

Diagrams of brain nerve cells resemble trees in winter — the tangle of bare branches are the dendrites, where the synapses are found, and the tree trunk is the axon. The output is a train of electrical “spikes” fired down the axon, in response to the input of the nerve cells connected to it via the synapses. The axon is in turn connected to other nerve cells via the synapses on their dendrites. And so it goes, on and on, in a hugely elaborate dance. So, superficially, you might think the brain is a massive array of interconnected electrical switches. With modern, high-speed computers, which are massive arrays of interconnected electrical switches, surely it is only a matter of time before we build computers — artificial intelligences — that are smarter than we are? But how does such a simple design produce the extraordinary richness of human life and thought? And, for that matter, of animal life as well?

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Explainer: Towards conscious machines

Even our profound knowledge of physics and chemistry doesn’t begin to explain how this electro-chemical activity generates conscious experience — the feeling of pain and the redness of the colour red, or the mysterious way that these seemingly identical electro-chemical processes produce sensations such as sound and vision that feel so different. And then there is “the binding problem”: how does all this disparate neuronal activity, spread out in both space and time, produce coherent experience? With vision, for instance, we know that there are separate “centres” for colour and movement and other features such as vertical or horizontal lines; somehow, these bind and resonate together to produce a single image without, as one might naively expect, reporting in to some final integrating centre, synonymous with our sense of self.

The fact that the brain is a physical system must mean, of course, that it is subject to the laws of physics and is therefore computable. As the physicist David Deutsch has argued in his book The Beginning of Infinity, following on from Alan Turing’s groundbreaking paper “On Computable Numbers”, published in 1936, computers are not just another metaphor for the brain like steam engines or telephone exchanges. Computers are “universal simulators” and can, at least in theory, simulate all the information-processing that a human brain carries out, although it might take an almost infinitely long time. This is not to say that the brain is like a computer — a common misconception of Turing’s position.

The fact that the brain must be subject to the laws of physics poses problems for the philosophers, who continue to ponder determinism and free will. Some, such as Daniel Dennett, end up claiming that consciousness and free will are illusions, a position that I, for one, find rather hard to apply to my day-to-day life, especially as I struggle to get out of bed on a cold winter morning. The more interesting questions are the practical ones — how close are computers to matching the human brain? How close are we to understanding how our brains work? And can AI help us understand our brains and vice versa?

The complexity of the brain resides in the way in which the nerve cells are connected. Nerve cells are not, in fact, simple electrical switches. They are formed by organic molecules and not of the silicon and metal of computers. The connection at synapses is carried out by chemicals — neurotransmitters, of which there are upwards of a hundred different types. Neuronal networks are dynamic — they are constantly changing. They weaken or strengthen in accordance with how much traffic is passing through them. The brain is — to a certain extent — plastic. It can re-programme itself. In blind-folded people, for instance, cortical areas that normally process vision will start processing sound within 48 hours. The brain is topologically complex — it may consist of billions of similar brain cells and their connecting axons — but they are arranged in physically very distinct and precise groups and networks. Furthermore, neurons come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, even though they all share the same basic plan of dendrites, cell body and axon.

Brains do not come as isolated entities as do computers. They come with bodies, to which they are intimately connected. The bodies are their interface with the world, through which they learn to move, and, some would argue, there cannot be thinking without embodiment. The most plausible explanation for the evolution of brains is that they are prediction devices. To move effectively to find food, shelter and sex, we navigate using a model of the outside world created within our brains. Think of how confusing it is when you go down a staircase and there is one more or one less step than you unconsciously expected, or of the strange feeling as you reach the top of an escalator and the steps shrink. Perception is in large part expectation. Recent research is starting to reveal just how complicated the brain-body relationship can be — intestinal bacteria, for instance, seem to have a significant association with Parkinson’s disease and autism — well, at least in mice. Human brains also come as part of social groups. We are, after all, utterly social creatures.

The philosopher David Hume wrote that “reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions”. Human intelligence is inextricably linked with emotions — the pleasure mathematicians find in an elegant proof, the curiosity that drives a young child to learn by exploring the world, the fear that helps us judge risk. The disembodied, isolated and emotionless “intelligence” of a computer is far removed from all this. This is not to say that true artificial intelligence — leaving aside the serious difficulty of defining the word “intelligence” in the first place — is impossible. It’s just that creating it might be rather difficult.

There are significant practical limitations on the extent to which we can experiment and explore our own brains. The resolution of the best MRI brain scanners, for instance, is about one cubic millimetre, and one cubic millimetre of cerebral cortex can contain up to 100,000 neurons and a billion synapses. The temporal resolution is a little less than one second, and much cerebral activity is measured in milliseconds, so what we see with MRI scans are, in effect, blurred snapshots. Although higher resolutions are possible, they involve immensely strong magnetic fields with which there are many problems. Electrodes inserted into the brain can sometimes be used when operating on patients as part of their treatment work-up, and this can allow very limited experimentation, as can computer-brain interfaces implanted into paralysed patients who can then control, after much practice, robotic arms. But this is, so to speak, only scratching at the surface. We often have to use animals instead, and they can never tell us what they are thinking.

Brains do not come as isolated entities as do computers. They come with bodies, to which they are intimately connected

One of the many major research projects into the human brain is the US-led Human Connectome Project, a multi-faculty collaboration that aims to produce a complete 3D wiring diagram of the brain. This has recently been achieved, but only at intermediate resolution — not down to the level of individual cells and axons — for the mouse brain. It will take decades, not years, to produce the complete connectome of the human brain. One complete connectome has been established — that for the tapeworm C. elegans, which has some 307 neurons and 7,000 synapses. But even this took many years to unravel, and a connectome is only the beginning of trying to understand how a nervous system functions, just as looking at a map of a city is only the beginning of understanding a city. A connectome is necessary but not sufficient. Even when the human connectome has been created, ethical considerations may well limit the extent to which the connectome of dead brains can be related to the thoughts and feelings of living ones.

AI came into existence in the 1950s when the first digital computers were being built. At a famous — some would say infamous — conference at Dartmouth College in 1956, the early AI pioneers, such as Marvin Minsky, confidently asserted that machines would outstrip human intelligence within a few decades. But AI progressed unsteadily over the next four decades, with several “AI winters”, when funding dried up as a result of the signal failure of the field to deliver its promised results.

The breakthrough in AI in recent years has resulted from the miniaturisation of computer chips. Computers have become more and more powerful, permitting massive and rapid data processing. It has also been made possible by abandoning attempts to programme computers with symbolic logic, which the early AI pioneers thought held the key to imitating human intelligence. The remarkable progress in AI in recent years is largely based on “neural networks” and machine learning, ideas developed decades ago but only recently put into practice. Neural networks only resemble brain networks in a very loose way. They consist of layered assemblies whose output can feed back and modify their input in accordance with a pre-programmed target, so that they “learn”. They are engines of statistical association and classification. They neither explain nor do they understand. They have no internal model or theory of what is being analysed.

The literature, however, abounds in anthropomorphisms — AI programmes are said to “see” and “think”. Google’s DeepMind programme AlphaGo“vanquished” champion Go player Lee Se-dol. This is all nonsense. It is easy to get carried away. The predictive texting on your smartphone prompts you simply by calculating the probability of the next word from mindless analysis of previous text. Google Translate has trawled the entire contents of the internet without understanding a single word.

This statistical approach to AI has nevertheless yielded remarkable results. And yet all current machine intelligences can only perform one task. This form of intelligence is reminiscent of the patients described in some of Oliver Sacks’ writings — people who can carry out remarkable feats of calculation but are utterly helpless in normal society. And yet, despite the profound differences between the deep learning of AIs and organic brains, some recent research by the American neuroscientist Doris Tsao on facial recognition in monkeysshows that the facial recognition area in their brains uses algorithms very similar indeed to the ones used by AIs.

The Holy Grail for AI is “general intelligence” — a computer programme that could not only play games with simple rules but also perform other tasks, such as speech and face recognition, without being re-programmed. On present evidence it looks unlikely that neuronal networks and deep learning will ever be able to do this. Google recently created an AI that could recognise cats in photographs without even training the AI initially with pictures of cats. But this required the AI to be exposed to millions of pictures (it did not “look” at them), whereas a child probably only has to meet a few cats to be able to identify reliably all cats in future.

The energy consumption of a human brain is 20-30 watts — a dim lightbulb. An exascale computer, capable of a quintillion calculations per second, scaled up to the size of a human brain, would consume hundreds of megawatts. Computer engineers talk of the “von Neumann bottleneck”, a problem with classical computer design in which memory is stored separately from the Central Processing Unit, and one of the reasons why computers use so much energy.

Just as “neural networks” were inspired by biological brains, there is now great interest in “neuromorphic chips”, where computer chips are designed to physically resemble nerve cells rather than merely mimic them in the software program. This should, in principle, make computers much less energy-intensive. The Human Brain Project (HBP), a multi-centre European research effort, funded by the EU to the tune of billions of euros, started with the grand ambition to build a brain — initially of a mouse, then of a human — from the bottom upwards, using computers. By creating a brain out of computer chips, the hope is that we might understand our own brains better. This is a somewhat optimistic inversion of Richard Feynman’s famous remark: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” Whether the HBP will achieve this or not is highly controversial, given that our current understanding of how brains work is so limited.

Filled with a fervour reminiscent of the Second Coming and the Rapture, people talk of the Singularity, a time when AI will equal human intelligence

One part of the HBP, using neuromorphic design, is Professor Stephen Furber’s experimental and newly launched SpiNNaker computer at Manchester University. It is designed to be both energy-efficient and to run models of brain function, among other things. It is too early to know, he tells me, whether it will lead to major breakthroughs or not, and this unpredictability is, of course, the very essence of science.

There are many other approaches. Simon Stringer and his team at the Oxford Laboratory for Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence have recently published a paper arguing that better theoretical models of neuronal transmission, in particular trying to account for the binding problem, hold more promise of progress. The timing of the firing of nerve cells, and the delays that occur in the time it takes the nerve impulse to travel along axons, could, they argue, be of critical importance in explaining the binding problem. There can be no doubt that much more fundamental research of this kind is required.

I find it strange that some people are so certain that the arrival of “superintelligent” machines is only a matter of time. Filled with a fervour reminiscent of the Second Coming and the Rapture, they talk of the Singularity, a time when AI will equal human intelligence. This belief — which is all it is — often comes with the hope that the human brain and all its contents can be re-written as computer code and that we will find the life everlasting as software programs. These ideas are not to be taken seriously, although they certainly sell books.

The future is always uncertain, and the future of AI and neuroscience is uncertain. Given the vast amount of current research in both fields, it is inevitable that tremendous progress will be made. Machine-learning AIs in their present form are already having a profound economic and social impact and will continue to do so. There is no risk, however, in the foreseeable future, of superintelligent AIs replacing us, or treating us as we have so often treated, and continue to treat, animals. Whether the effects of AI will be beneficial or malign will depend on the uses to which we ourselves put them. As to the possibility of machines acquiring general intelligence — “true AI” as some call it — it’s anybody’s guess. All that is certain is that even if it is possible, it is still a very long way away.

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CaWF characters and (in my opinion) their cooking skills

Squad leader: The food he makes is absolutely amazing, very good and very healthy. He does not compromise on his nutrition as it's important to him. 10/10 he only eats outside if he's lazy to cook

2145: He does not care at all for how good, healthy or appealing his food is. It's whatever. He would eat a raw egg whole for breakfast, he would ask you if you want one too. Worst case scenario 2/10 best case scenario 5/10

IM1235: Decent, she could make a meal and it would be pretty good. As a red blood cell her sweetness tolerance is higher than most, so her dishes are probably very sweet. 8/10 kinda dishes if you don't mind the glucose

Reg T: Doesn't cook a lot but she probably wouldn't mess up if you gave her a recipe. She doesn't really know what to add to a dish to make it any better or what to avoid so it doesn't become worse. 6/10 at least it's edible and you won't hate it too much

HT: His taste for food is insane. He can make food that he enjoys but if you tried it you would question everything you know about him. 2/10 order your own food than rely on him.

B Cell: Surprisingly good, he would get infinitely more maidens if he were to show them his cooking skills rather than invite them to parties or the like, he can do both baking and cooking, very good for him. 8/10 in general

Memory Cell: I'd imagine he was the one who taught B cell his skills, prefers bitter tastes over sweet ones, 7-9/10 depending on how similar your taste is to his

Mast Cell: Terrible. He can only do cup noodles. All his effort goes into Cellor-sun, not self preservation. 1/10 if you were to make him make an actual dish.

Eosinophil: I like to imagine she can bake pretty well, but her cooking is more or less average. Baking 10/10 cooking 6/10

NK: She is prepared for every scenario her little head can think of, taught herself cooking because what if she gets stranded and lost out in the wilderness?! 7/10 She will not risk herself dying from food poisoning

Dendritic Cell: Surprisingly horrendous. You do not expect a sweet guy who has good sewing and knitting skills be this bad at cooking, so it makes it all the more worse. 0/10 always eats with his colleagues who can cook or goes outside to eat.

M cell: A bartender who sells food on the regular definitely knows how to do it. Maybe his depression dampened his skills but it's very good, the bad reviews on his shop never mention the cooking, only his personality after all. 10/10 KT is on par with him which is why he only asks KT to help him at the bar sometimes.

3033: If you gave him the recipe, he'd find a way to mess up something (he doesn't even know how it goes wrong). He gets frustrated at it so he doesn't do it that much, at least he can make instant noodles with a few extra bits here and there. 3/10, he wishes he could do something about it.

Cross: Surprisingly very good. Maybe it's a hobby of his, maybe it's just him trying to imitate his squad leader, who knows. Good at improvising with ingredients, especially since the budget at the T cell station is so limited, he has to make whatever work. 9/10 he could somehow make bacteria taste decent

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I Asked a Med Student What He Thought About Cells at Work!

Cells at Work! has become one of the biggest hits of the season, entertaining and educating fans about the fundamentals of our own biology. Social media has been watching the series closely for hidden lessons taking place in the background. But with every story arc of the series, important new questions arise. How accurate are the events in Cells at Work!? Can I watch this instead of going to Biology class? I went to great lengths in search for answers, asking my friend, former housemate, and current med student Jean to fact check the series. I got a whole lot more than I bargained for, as he believes an education in biology can help forecast the trajectory of the entire series!

Let’s start with a bit of self introduction. Can you share some of your credentials?

Jean: Sure! My name is Jean and I'm currently a 3rd year allopathic medical student in the US. Prior to medical school I obtained my degree in molecular biology and worked as a research coordinator in the field of cancer clinical trials.

  And you’re pretty familiar with anime, right?

Jean: I started watching anime in my early teens with Dragon Ball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho on Cartoon network and once I realized there was a whole world of other genres and series, I was pretty much hooked. I generally will read the manga accompanied with any series I watch since I think there's some visual storytelling lost in the transition from paper to animation. I'd say I'm somewhere closer to a casual anime fan and tend to watch more shonen series' than anything else. Recent stuff I have been into have been My Hero Academia, Boruto, and Overlord.

When I came to you with this, Cells at Work! was already on your radar. Where did you first learn about it?

Jean: Yeah, it was intriguing! I saw a clip of it on Youtube and within a few seconds realized what the premise was. I just recently finished taking part 1 of my medical licensing boards so certain things really jumped out at me.

  Now we just passed episode 3 and you’re caught up?

It's pretty amazing. I realized that, when studying for biology/physiology/immunology, you create these quasi narratives in your head about how some things work. Great example, neutrophils are generally your first line of defense to any sort of inflammatory insult. I like to think of them of single-minded little soldiers roaming and ready to respond to anything when need be. ‘Lo and behold, the anime pretty much conveys this exactly.

There are some other things that I didn't expect as well; platelets have easily become one of my favorite things. [Laughs] Biologically, I think they're kind of boring, but the anime attaches this really funny and endearing image of these little kids just trying to do their best and it’s super important!

Not only that, I've been really struck by how accurate certain things are there’s a scene that jumps out at me which is of the platelet kids laying down a massive fibrin clot. Ask any medical student about the coagulation cascade. It’s probably one of the more annoying things to memorize leading up to boards, but the basic idea along with some key initiator molecules were all there in the scene!

GP1B binding to Von Willebrand Factor, the addition of the coagulation factors to lay down the fibrin clot and the grand follow up of secondary hemostasis of everyone being brought together to keep the clot stable, it was pretty brilliant! Obviously, some details were missing (there are 13 coagulation factors) but the idea was conveyed very clearly and way closer to reality than I would've predicted out of an anime.

  I did wonder about that. Both Red and White got caught in the clot but they make it back into circulation. I sort of doubted that would be the case?

I think that’s a bit of the anime offering a happier and less complicated picture of the reality. Some of those cells might make it back to circulation, but more than likely would be cleared from the bloodstream via the spleen shortly after. Basically what you're seeing is a scab by that point, and what do we do with scabs? [Laughs]

I was worried they might end up seeing the outside world...

Also, the 3rd episode’s depiction of T-cell activation is another really really tough concept in medical education that was tackled pretty well. I'm actually really looking forward to keeping up with the series because I'm really curious about how they will start portraying pathology associated autoimmune disorders and cancer. For an anime this adds a fun a plot twist since some of the characters may not always be heroes!

  So that's where you hope the series will go next?

I'm about 90% sure it will. The progression of the episodes is actually very reminiscent of how you teach biology/physiology/immunology:

1. Establish and define the roles of the various players in the system2. Establish where they are and how they interact3. Start introducing pathology that alters these roles and interactions in ways that cause disease.

Funnily enough, that's kind of how anime plots work too, so I guess I would be surprised if they didn’t go that direction!

  Wow, so the narrative has sort of been structured like a biology course?

Yup! Our hero is our friendly blood cell. Her pathway, job, and friends on her way are important to understanding the narrative as well as how we understand what blood is supposed to do biologically  World building in anime is important and actually the body offers a convenient blueprint for doing this in that our little blood cell has to get to certain places all the time! They've already set up some foreshadowing that we'll learn a bit about the spleen, lymph nodes, etc. The metanarrative is very much is lending itself to a systems based model on teaching biology/physiology/immunology from the starting point and perspective of a red blood cell which, to a bio nerd like me, is pretty damn cool.

Social media has taken to the series showing off examples of biological features that have been introduced but not necessarily explained as sort of submarine lessons, like the idea of platelet satellitism being represented by the platelet riding on White’s shoulders. Did you pick up anything like that?

I think what is 'submarined' are actually some really cool basic things and not as esoteric as platelet satellitism. Streptococcus pyogenes and staphylococcus are a really good example. One of the big differences between Staph and Strep is that Staph forms clusters and Strep forms chains. The Strep villain has a long tail made up of little balls, like a chain, and our Staph villains dress is essentially the classic morphology of staph aureus. Both are gram positive cocci, meaning they show up purple/blue on a gram stain, and what are cocci? Cells that look like balls! There’s so much just right there in just the design. Additionally, Staph classically causes yellowish golden exudates, so it makes sense that she’s yellow in the anime.

  Also, Strep hiding in the box! Strep can actually use something called antigenic mimicry to avoid detection by the immune system, specifically the neutrophil receptors. Oh, and those boxes the platelets needed help opening! If you noticed, they read Ca2. That’s calcium! All our cells have intracellular stores of calcium and those little platelets need that calcium to do their job properly. It’s super underemphasized, but I thought was a cool detail.

Earlier on it sounded like you had some predictions for where the series would go?

I am really really looking forward to how they flesh out more of the Lymphocytes. The relationship between Neutrophils, Killer T cells, Helper T cells, Macrophages, Dendritic cells, and Activated T cells + B cells is super complicated. Lymphocytes have a bad rap for leaving a lot of collateral damage (that's one of the mechanisms of autoimmune disease) so spoiler alert! Our heroes may find themselves at odds with each other soon enough.

     Are any of your fellow students aware of the show?

I'm not sure! I know a few are anime fans like me so I'll probably bring it up soon and see. I think a few might wish the show came out earlier when we were studying for boards! [Laughs]

New curriculum?

Honestly, I was impressed with how they portrayed T cell activation. That visual has essentially replaced my internal paradigm on how I remember it now. It has been a really fun and fairly accurate picture of the big concepts at play, but I should be clear that cells at work in no way replaces a medical education.

    Alright, final question. How do you think you’d enjoy the series if you weren’t in medicine?

It’s hard to detach from that as a med student. The best I can describe is similar to what I loved about The Magic School Bus as a kid but, in a lot of ways, it’s a lot better. There's a continuous narrative here and I'm really invested on what our clueless young red blood cell gets herself into next. I absolutely think anyone who has any vague interest in biology/science would enjoy it. By no means do I think having any sort of official education on anything is required and if anything its just a cool homage to how amazing our bodies and how hard their working for us!

Also, random thought. It’s funny because our brainless Red Blood Cell hero kind of has an excuse for always getting lost: RBC's don't have nuclei! They don't come with instructions like many of the other characters, they kind of just carry what’s around and move on.

From an anime perspective I think its fun, it’s engaging, and for whatever reason I'm invested in the characters and I want to see where the RBC gets lost next; I want to know how she meets back up with our heroic WBC and gosh damn it, it's cute seeing those platelets just trying to do their best!

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Peter Fobian is an Associate Features Editor for Crunchyroll, author of Monthly Mangaka Spotlight, writer for Anime Academy, and contributor at Anime Feminist. You can follow him on Twitter @PeterFobian.

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[devintrinidad]

Whoa I sent you a lot of asks! (Sure thing. I never know how long,a thought grows but I’ll try to be more mindful. I can imagine how messy that could get). 

Lol those fic snips are adorable. 3803 thinking she’s confiding a big secret about 1146 possibly liking her (she would confess to a platelet XP) only to discover she’s talking to one of 1146’s confidante’s in love advice. 

Killer T is a overly sensitive mess of social drama. He would feel like the world was out to get him, when only two cells were teasing him (Commander T and Dendritic would totally be the ones poking at his non existent love life ‘if even someone hopeless and workaholic like u1146 can get a doting girlfriend what’s that make you? =D). Poor u1146 would get the brunt of his ire. 3803 would be in the dark because 1146 wouldn’t tell her. She’d just think Memory T was being a good friend with all of the 'congratulating’ he does.

1146 rethinking his all calls being friends dream should exclude his friends with 3803. 

Ooh. A RBA sequel with this plotline would be awesome! Honestly even after I posted that I wondered if 3803 forgiving Cancer now Normal cell quickly would be likely. Then I read more RBA and I was like nope she wouldn’t be that at ease. I think thinking about it, 1146 would talk to her about it. How Cancer’s were made. If only because I think she’d ask for one reason or another (I could see her asking him before a newborn ex Cancer cell pops up. Just to get more closure and info so she knows what she’s dealing with better just in case). I think with 3803 she’d forgive. But she wouldn’t forget. Like you said she’s not obligated to be his friend and Cancer cell has A LOT to apologize for. But at the same time she knows logically he’s not a threat so she has no reason to be afraid of him. But she still doesn’t like being alone with him. 

That would actually be a nice way to give a newborn Cancer normal cell character development. He’s lost his one excuse to hurt others and now can live pain free w/o persecution. Even better only a select few immune cells know of his past as Cancer and 3803 is the only non immune who knows. Ex Cancer’s journey could be earning 3803’s and 1146’s true friendship and forgiveness. Basically learning how to really love someone and maybe some different perspective on the world. Idk. I kind of like the absolute monster learns humanity if done well. 

But who knows if he’d ever do it well. =P Cancer did a lot of bad things and he’s got a lot of entitlement and god complexes to work out. He probably still would stubbornly deny he’s as responsible as he is of the things he did. 

How ironic. Cancer’s dream of a world where he’s accepted and it’d start out as a nightmare. He’d still hate what he hated. He’s just useless to do anything about it now.

I’m thinking his and 3803’s relationship would be the most complex. Not just because of how he hurt her. But he’d have to decide if she was soneone he wanted as a lover or a mother. Near the end of RBA it seems 3803 leaned on seeing Cancer as a child.

Oh boy 1146 would not even want to tell 3803 about Cancer’s new situation. But he’d have to because the thought of her being scared/confused while running into ex Cancer cell w/o any warning would be unbearable for him. Like you said, as much as he’d understand and pity ex Cancer’s situation. Ex Cancer still hurt the cell he loves most (and is in love with? Yeah I could see 1146 refraining from confessing to 3803 if he hasn’t by then. If only because of what Cancer did to her and being afraid he was pushing too much on her too soon). But the way I see it. Ex Cancer has this same weird ability to wind up everywhere 3803 is. They get in all sorts of situations. Even situations where 3803 would have to rescue him because she’s still a RBC and she will help any non threatening cell she can. It’s her job (she won’t be happy about it. But she’ll do it). 

Pfft, just imagine if 3803 and ex Cancer wound up caught together in the platelets. They’d be smooshed together and ex Cancer wouldn’t mind. 3803 wouldn’t get ptsd flashbacks and wonder how her luck is so bad. Meanwhile a agitated 1146 is on the outside for once asking for someone to bring the darn scissors for once so he can rip ex Cancer cell out of there.  

Yes. Ex Cancer would totally be devoted to her even when can’t stand his presence and wish he’d go away or never came back. If she was injured he’d visit her in the infirmary and refuse to leave her side. 1146 would definitely try try to be sympathetic but he’d totally be overprotective of 3803’s wellbeing and make her state of being a priority (can you imagine the drama if 1146 ended up saving ex Cancer because he was closer but lost track of 3803. He’d have to deal with the fact he did his job but wants to find 3803 and hope she’s surviving this latest invasion. Then ex Cancer runs off to find her… Total mess). 

Yeah I’m rambling. It’d all be a messy mess of relationships and scars and whether or not some can heal. For everyone. Ex Cancer has a lot to consider and isn’t exactly All Right either. Which I guess would drive him to obsessed over 3803 again. Be it to ensure her safety and warn her friendship. Whether he’s doing it because he genuinely feels bad and wants it for real or because he’s at a lost and needs something to fuel his drive for life. Not even he knows

Thanks for the responses and again for RBA! Have a great day!

Forgot to mention. Just imagine in that RBA sexual scenario where 1146 talks about Cancer's origins with 3803 because he's showing he knows two sides in how he deals with ex Cancer now. 3803 crying because she's sorry she can't get over her trauma and forgive easily as 1146 can and thinks she's less kind for it. 1146 feeling horrible for unintentionally making her feel bad and hugging her. Admitting he still feels rage over what Cancer did to her and doesn't believe he'll ever forgive ex Cancer.

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Thank you so much, CAW Anon! I really appreciate you doing this for me. :D

Get ready for the last chapter, I’ll be uploading it soon. ;)

That platelet situation, heheheh. That would definitely be a disaster and a half, especially if Non-Cancer and 3803 were stuck together. I can only imagine how awkward and terrifying it must be for 3803 (depending on how long ago the Cancer incident was and when Non-Cancer was born). 

Like:

AE-3803, unfortunately, was having a bad day. 

She managed to finish only a tenth of her packages, she managed to get lost en route to the heart, and finally, the body had decided that it was a great day to get their elbow scraped. The abrasion would have been fine (more work for the immune cells and the platelets), but 3803 had taken the wrong route and was now stuck within the blood clot.

Normally, 3803 would have weathered the incident with a smile on her face. However, once she found out that she was chest to chest with him, 3803 knew that she’d rather be phagocytized or sent to the spleen.

“Little Miss--”

3803 scowled up at the cell before brusquely turning away so that she could watch the platelets construct more clots. 

“Don’t call me that.”

The normal cell who used to be Cancer looked taken aback by 3803′s attitude.

“Look, I already--”

3803 glared at him before her eyes softened and she ducked her head low.

“Look, I’d rather...” She took a shuddering breath before facing him once again. “Just... Be quiet, please. I can’t-I can’t do this right now.”

For once, the cell who had once been Cancer, acquiesced to her demands as he fell silent and contemplative. 

It was going to be a long day.

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