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Jana Šmardová
Chapter 5: Replication potential and reluctance to age
This chapter begins with an explanation of the mechanism that ensures adequate viability for healthy cells. The reader is given an explanation of the term "telomere" and its significance for the...
Fatal daisies II: Jan Šmarda
PROLOGUE When we became a couple in love, we were constantly thinking about how we could make each other happy or make a surprise. One Sunday evening, for example, I was waiting for Jana at the...
Fatal Daisies I: Jan Šmarda
Jana and I met for the first time at the beginning of the fall semester of 1979, when we both began studying molecular biology at the Faculty of Science at the then J.E. Purkyne University in Brno,...
Chapter 4: Cell and human dying
It may sound surprising, but not only the birth of a cell through division, but also its death and dying in multicellular organisms follows a perfect and pre-formed plan. Therefore, this type of...
Chapter 3: Speed of tumor cells and society
In Chapter 3, the book reaches its first climax. It's a chapter dedicated to speed. First, that associated with the division of tumor cells, and then that associated with our lives in modern...
Chapter 2: Cancer and eleven non-deadly sins
In Chapter 2 you will learn, among other things, what cancer is, how this disease is defined and which features distinguish tumor cells from healthy cells. You will also learn that cancer is a...