/oss/taxonomy/term/6066/all en /oss/article/health-and-nutrition-general-science/every-day-our-body-needs-demolish-billions-houses <p>Imagine waking up one day to a constant racket. You walk out of your house and see that your neighbour’s townhouse is being deconstructed. A crew is disassembling that house item by item, some of which will be reused somewhere else. You think to yourself, “At least they didn’t use a wrecking ball or my own house might not have been spared.”</p> <p>Every day, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nrc2663">tens of billions of our cells</a>—the cells that make up our brain, our heart, our skin—die in a very similar process of deconstruction.</p> Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9032 at /oss