LifeForce
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Exploring how living systems maintain, repair, and reproduce themselves
How Your Heart Beats 100,000 Times Daily Without Thinking
Discover the sophisticated pacemaker system and fail-safes that keep your heart beating independently through every moment of your life.
The Energy Currency of Life: How ATP Powers Every Move You Make
Discover the molecular transactions happening trillions of times per second that keep you alive, moving, and thinking
The Miracle of Wound Healing: Your Body's Construction Crew in Action
Discover the biological construction site where platelets become bricks, collagen forms scaffolding, and cellular workers orchestrate your body's remarkable self-repair system.
The Protein Folding Problem: How Shape Determines Everything in Your Body
Discover why the three-dimensional shape of proteins matters more than their ingredients, and how misfolding triggers devastating diseases from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's.
The Oxygen Paradox: Why the Gas That Keeps You Alive Also Kills You
Discover how every breath fuels your cells while simultaneously aging them, and why this chemical trade-off defines the limits of human life.