cells

• protoplasmic cell is biologic unit of material life

49:1.2The bi­o­logic unit of ma­te­rial life is the pro­to­plas­mic cell, the com­mu­nal as­so­ci­a­tion of chem­i­cal, elec­tri­cal, and other ba­sic en­er­gies. The chem­i­cal for­mu­las dif­fer in each sys­tem, and the tech­nique of liv­ing cell re­pro­duc­tion is slightly dif­fer­ent in each lo­cal uni­verse, but the Life Car­ri­ers are al­ways the liv­ing cat­alyz­ers who ini­ti­ate the pri­mor­dial re­ac­tions of ma­te­rial life; they are the in­sti­ga­tors of the en­ergy cir­cuits of liv­ing mat­ter.

• healing secretions when injured

65:4.3Many fea­tures of hu­man life af­ford abun­dant ev­i­dence that the phe­nom­e­non of mor­tal ex­is­tence was in­tel­li­gently planned, that or­ganic evo­lu­tion is not a mere cos­mic ac­ci­dent. When a liv­ing cell is in­jured, it pos­sesses the abil­ity to elab­o­rate cer­tain chem­i­cal sub­stances which are em­pow­ered so to stim­u­late and ac­ti­vate the neigh­bor­ing nor­mal cells that they im­me­di­ately be­gin the se­cre­tion of cer­tain sub­stances which fa­cil­i­tate heal­ing pro­cesses in the wound; and at the same time these nor­mal and un­in­jured cells be­gin to pro­lif­er­ate—they ac­tu­ally start to work cre­at­ing new cells to re­place any fel­low cells which may have been de­stroyed by the ac­ci­dent.

65:4.4This chem­i­cal ac­tion and re­ac­tion con­cerned in wound heal­ing and cell re­pro­duc­tion rep­re­sents the choice of the Life Car­ri­ers of a for­mula em­brac­ing over one hun­dred thou­sand phases and fea­tures of pos­si­ble chem­i­cal re­ac­tions and bi­o­logic reper­cus­sions. More than half a mil­lion spe­cific ex­per­i­ments were made by the Life Car­ri­ers in their lab­o­ra­to­ries be­fore they fi­nally set­tled upon this for­mula for the Uran­tia life ex­per­i­ment.

65:4.5When Uran­tia sci­en­tists know more of these heal­ing chem­i­cals, they will be­come more ef­fi­cient in the treat­ment of in­juries, and in­di­rectly they will know more about con­trol­ling cer­tain se­ri­ous dis­eases.

65:4.6Since life was es­tab­lished on Uran­tia, the Life Car­ri­ers have im­proved this heal­ing tech­nique as it has been in­tro­duced on an­other Sa­ta­nia world, in that it af­fords more pain re­lief and ex­er­cises bet­ter con­trol over the pro­lif­er­a­tion ca­pac­ity of the as­so­ci­ated nor­mal cells.

• human c. akin to disease-producing organisms

76:4.7The body cells of the Ma­te­rial Sons and their progeny are far more re­sis­tant to dis­ease than are those of the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings in­dige­nous to the planet. The body cells of the na­tive races are akin to the liv­ing dis­ease-pro­duc­ing mi­cro­scopic and ul­tra­mi­cro­scopic or­gan­isms of the realm. These facts ex­plain why the Uran­tia peo­ples must do so much by way of sci­en­tific ef­fort to with­stand so many phys­i­cal dis­or­ders. You would be far more dis­ease re­sis­tant if your races car­ried more of the Adamic life.