• zarathustrad@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Fraggle Rock helped me understand this part of cell bio (osteoclasts/blasts).

    In the underground caverns of your skeleton, a perfect symbiotic ecosystem exists between two distinct groups: the Osteoblasts (the Doozers) and the Osteoclasts (the Fraggles). Just as in Fraggle Rock, their survival depends on a continuous cycle of building and eating, ensuring the structural integrity of their world

    Like the industrious Doozers, osteoblasts are obsessed with construction.

    The osteoclasts are the carefree Fraggles of this system. They roam the bone surface looking for old, damaged, or unnecessary structures to “snack” on.