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FREQUENTLY IGNORED. "The immortality of a population depends upon a periodic exchange or rearrangement of genetic information. The immortality of individual organisms or cells, however, depends on demonstrating that exchange of genetic information has not occurred. That seems self evident but it is frequently ignored." https://lnkd.in/dQ_65Wv View in LinkedIn

INDIVIDUALS VS. POPULATIONS. "There are two kinds of immortality that are frequently confused or misunderstood. The two are immortality of individuals and immortality of populations." http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v62/full/62111380.html View in LinkedIn

GRAND SLAM. "It's my belief that if one would substitute the word "interesting" for the word transformation in the world's biological literature today, nothing substantive would be lost." http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v62/full/62111380.html View in LinkedIn

CELL TRANSFORMATION into a tumor cell. "Our definitions were not universally accepted nor has anyone else been able to bring order out of the current terminological chaos, including heroic efforts by several nomenclature committees established by the Tissue Culture Association. Because of this, today, the scientific literature in this field is virtually unintelligible." http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v62/full/62111380.html View in LinkedIn

TRANSFORMATION of normal cells into cancer cells is a critical step towards cellular immortality. View in LinkedIn

Single-use plastics could be banned in England next year https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/18/single-use-plastics-could-be-banned-in-england-next-year?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

SERIAL CULTURE AND REGRAFTING. "The goal that these in vitro and in vivo studies has been to answer this fundamental question: Can normal animal cells functioning and replicating under ideal conditions escape from the inevitability of aging and death that is obligatory for the animal from which the were derived?" http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v62/full/62111380.html View in LinkedIn

EXPERIMENTAL TEST. "There are at least two ways in which the mortality or immortality of animal cells can be determined. First, cells can be serially cultured in laboratory glassware and second, cells having specific markers allowing them to be distinguished from host animal cells, can be serially transplanted in isogeneic laboratory animals. The transplanted tissue is then regrafted to a younger host when the donor host becomes old." https://lnkd.in/dQ_65Wv View in LinkedIn

LESTAT, the Anne Rice vampire said: "when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death." The ennui of an eternal struggle to keep up endless enthusiasm. https://lnkd.in/dsxg8m3 View in LinkedIn

CONTRARIAN'S WISH. "The fact that immortality, in its stricter definitions has never been demonstrated, even in unicellular forms, provides strong support for the likelihood, if not the hope, that it will not be found to occur in higher forms." https://lnkd.in/esfPTAR View in LinkedIn