Today, the prompt asked about what's going on in the world right now. I wrote about that yesterday, which is COVID-19. So instead, let me tell you about something I am currently obsessed with:
CELLS AT WORK!!
Season One, currently on Netflix, talks about the cells that make up our bodies. It follows mainly two characters: a very ditzy red blood cell that gets lost easily, and a neutrophil (a specific type of white blood cell) that kills first, and asks questions later. Every episode, something goes wrong in the body, whether it be heatstroke, cancer, Staph Aureus infection, or food poisoning. And then, here's where the real cool part happens. What it seen on the show are the actual processes that the body does to fix the problem. Like how naive T-cells train in the thymus gland to learn regular body cells from pathogens, and how the T-cells that attack the wrong ones are "washed away" from the body.
It looks like there will be a second season next January, but it is unsure if it will follow the current Cells at Work manga, or if this will follow one of the other off shoots. Either way, it's a fun educational way to spend some time and learn something new in the process.
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