Laminins are a huge family of proteins, made of 3 separate protein parts that come together (called a "heterotrimer") that help cells of animals stick together and bind tissues together.
Laminin proteins are called "Cell Adhesion Molecules" (aka CAM's) or integrins, because they hold cells together by sticking on the outside of cells and binding other proteins on other cells so things don't just drift apart.
The point of my friend's email was that Laminin (not very specific about which specific laminin we were talking about here) forms the shape of a cross, like that of Christianity and the crucifix of Jesus of Nazareth. That is how it is portrayed in the image, anyway, which is really a schematic of the protein parts.
I looked at the picture and looked laminin up on the web and found a slurry of Chrsitians associating the laminin protein (and its schematic image) with the cross and slapping it on t-shirts, hats and other tourist-like souvenirs and calling it the "God Protein".
Looking again at the image of laminin, I thought it really did not look like a cross, but rather like some OTHER religious iconography I had seen. Follow the pictures below to see if you understand what I mean...
Here is the image of laminin my friend (the Super-Christian) sent me
Here is a typical Cristian Cross
Here are some scientific images of how Laminin really works and what it looks like in the body
I think you can see from the scientific images that laminin looks more like a "peace sign" than a Christian cross.
So here are the rest of the pictures for you to compare them to...
Archangel Raphael with his staff
The Greek Kerukeion
The Angel Caduceus
The Roman God Mercury
The Midian symbol for the Goddess Mithra
The Greek God Hermes and his wand
Finally, these following images only have one single serpent around a staff, so it is not really like the protein Laminin, but you get the picture...
The brazen Nehushtan of Moses
The Staff of Asclepius
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