Category: Nature Middle East
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History through a grain of pollen
This piece was originally published in Nature Middle East In a small village called El-Hamoul, surrounded by the green fields of Eygpt’s Nile Delta, a young girl gathered herbs from along the irrigation canal. She arranged similar flowers in neat rows on the damp soil. “The plants that grew all year…
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Regulation, Not Combat: Another Face of Immunity
This piece was originally published in Nature Middle East. The easy, somewhat simplistic choice in describing the immune system, with all the complexity of its biological processes, is that it is: an “army” or a “line of defense.” This metaphor has gained complete dominance over time in biological science literature. It…
Ahmad Gamal Saad-Eddin 