Monday, October 6, 2008

Quote of the day

Beth, asking about my claim that I had beautiful pictures of cells from my experiments last week:


"Are they inherently beautiful or just scientifically beautiful?"


Answer: To most people probably the latter, but I think there's beauty in living, growing, healthy cells.



Baby hamster kidney cells--alive and dead via viral infection
(these were grown via cell culture, not directly from a baby hamster)

3 comments:

b7 said...

Wow. I like both.

b7 said...

Although looking at it again, the entropy of the dying one is clear. Ah, profound thoughts about life and death and the world late at night...

MBK said...

yup. cytopathic effects, as we call it--totally a result of the fall. :/