Regina G. Barber
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Teresa, you wrote in your article about how these contaminants could affect lungs.
Like how are mold and other things affecting people's health?
So, Teresa, for consumers then who choose to partake, is there advice for them that you would give after doing all this reporting?
Teresa, Sydney, thank you so much for talking with me today.
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There are more cells in your body than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Our galaxy has a couple hundred billion stars, and inside me and you, each of us has around 30 trillion human cells.
30 trillion!
Cells are the fundamental building blocks of life.
But that doesn't mean they're simple.
Biology still doesn't have a full picture of how exactly a living cell works.
That's Kate Ademala.
A biological engineer at the University of Minnesota, she wants to do what only nature has done.
Build a cell from scratch.