To quote a dead Italian

Midway this life we're bound upon,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
Where the right road was wholly lost and gone.

There's just no getting away from it any more. No mere dilemma in deciding which path to take: the choices, if choices there are, are lost in the fog.

How did I come to stray so far?

To quote a dead Italian

Midway this life we're bound upon,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
Where the right road was wholly lost and gone.

There's just no getting away from it any more. No mere dilemma in deciding which path to take: the choices, if choices there are, are lost in the fog.

How did I come to stray so far?

*Boggle*

This paper actually wins my heretofore unassigned award for Most Peculiar Stem Cell Paper of The Year, and the Kellogg Prize for best use of Pritt Stick in a scientific figure (See Fig 1, just after p39). Redeems itself by having funky videos of cells linked, not that I can see any evidence of the phenomenon the paper describes in them, as they are entirely unlabelled...

It's a shame that poor use of terminology makes this paper appear even more bizarre than it is: it sounds like it could possibly describe an interesting and potentially important phenomenon. Interestingly, no subsequent publications corroborate these findings.

Potted version for non-specialists here.
"Neosis is the newly defined mode of cell division that occurs only in senescent, polyploid
cells, and has not been observed in normal diploid cells. Neosis is a parasexual, somatic, reduction
division displayed by a subset of multinucleate and/or polyploid giant cells or MN/PG cells formed
during the spontaneous senescent phase of normal cells at the end of their MLS or genetic stress-induced
accelerated senescence phase in tumor cells. " Uh... Okaaaaay.

*Boggle*

This paper actually wins my heretofore unassigned award for Most Peculiar Stem Cell Paper of The Year, and the Kellogg Prize for best use of Pritt Stick in a scientific figure (See Fig 1, just after p39). Redeems itself by having funky videos of cells linked, not that I can see any evidence of the phenomenon the paper describes in them, as they are entirely unlabelled...

It's a shame that poor use of terminology makes this paper appear even more bizarre than it is: it sounds like it could possibly describe an interesting and potentially important phenomenon. Interestingly, no subsequent publications corroborate these findings.

Potted version for non-specialists here.
"Neosis is the newly defined mode of cell division that occurs only in senescent, polyploid
cells, and has not been observed in normal diploid cells. Neosis is a parasexual, somatic, reduction
division displayed by a subset of multinucleate and/or polyploid giant cells or MN/PG cells formed
during the spontaneous senescent phase of normal cells at the end of their MLS or genetic stress-induced
accelerated senescence phase in tumor cells. " Uh... Okaaaaay.

Woohoo!

Troosers complete!

(I messed up inserting the zip a little but it doesn't show, and I won't tell if you don't, K?
Still maudlin, dammit.

Woohoo!

Troosers complete!

(I messed up inserting the zip a little but it doesn't show, and I won't tell if you don't, K?
Still maudlin, dammit.