autor: admin | Zář 3, 2024 | Jana Šmardová, Monograph, Publication
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...
autor: admin | Srp 29, 2024 | Fatal Daisies
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 train station when she returned from her...
autor: admin | Srp 29, 2024 | Fatal Daisies
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, Czech Republic. We were both 18 years old....
autor: admin | Čvc 29, 2024 | Jana Šmardová
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 death is called “programmed”...
autor: admin | Kvě 29, 2024 | Jana Šmardová, Monograph, Publication
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 society. In both cases to...