A while after you posted that, I was disappointed to discover that most modern biologists think Alexis Carrel's immortal chicken cells were nothing but a case of laboratory contamination.
(And that the other famous case of anomalously hardy cells, the encysted bacteria that supposedly lived on the Moon for a couple of years aboard a Surveyor probe, was probably also simple contamination after the fact.)
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Date: 2009-10-23 03:41 am (UTC)(And that the other famous case of anomalously hardy cells, the encysted bacteria that supposedly lived on the Moon for a couple of years aboard a Surveyor probe, was probably also simple contamination after the fact.)