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Jana Šmardová
Forgetfulness II
I contacted the public transportation company by phone and learned that the driver had not found a bag in the tram. I also tried in vain to check enquire at the lost and found office. We accepted...
Forgetfulness I: Jan Šmarda
PROLOGUE At the time I am writing these memories, around the turn of October/November 2024, it is exactly 40 years since the following incident happened. Jana and I had completed the first quarter...
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...