Hi, I'm Lindsay.

And I'm Marshall. Welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discovery.

Today we're taking an up close look at the lives of cells.

What is the life of a cell like? Like every day they wake up, they stretch the flagellum,

they heat up their cup of sugar, water.

It's a simple life, but it's a lot more complicated than most people imagine.

We're about to peek through the microscope to discover what makes every cell different.

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Mary Dunlop is a biological engineer who works in the laboratory the same way she works in the kitchen.

I'm the sort of cook or baker who like understands the reasons behind the recipes and then likes to go from there.

At home, she's known for cobbling together her own recipes with ideas from many different places.

My husband will ask how to make something and I'm like, oh you look on this website and then through that cookbook

and then you use the technique from this other thing, so that's the type of engineer I am as well.

What's Mary's equivalent of putting together a recipe when she's actually in her lab?

Well, a lab recipe is a science experiment.

Oh, I guess I never thought about it that way, but you're right.

The experiment Mary is cooking up has never been made before.

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