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Slime (2021)
An excerpt from Slime by Susanne Wedlich, translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu.
It may also be a surprise to discover that microbes were not only the dominant, but also the only form of life on Earth for billions of years, with slime, as the éminence gluante, propping up their power and setting in motion processes across the globe which still shape it today. Like materials science and climate research, biomedicine has been waking up to its own ‘slime blindness’; defective hydrogel barriers have an important part to play in infections, chronic intestinal inflammations, cystic fibrosis, cancer, heart attacks and a series of other ailments. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a new and exciting age dawned; people began to think of themselves as surrounded and permeated by vibrations and oscillations coming from the ether, an invisible and possibly gelatinous medium thought to span the entirety of space.
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