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Most mammalian cells, sure. The majority of cells on Earth are not mammalian cells or even animal cells.
by djur 4y ago
Most mammalian cells, sure. The majority of cells on Earth are not mammalian cells or even animal cells.
- jxramos 4y agoAh that's an interesting point, what cell family is on the table, something like prokaryotic vs eukaryotic.
- trompetenaccoun 4y agoJust for everyone's information before the chain continues. Cultured meat generally refers to real but modified animal cells. So when you're eating cultured chicken they're effectively similar or even identical to a real animal's cells.
- djur 4y agoSure. I'm just saying that there's nothing unearthly or, uh, "satanic" about a self-perpetuating cell line that doesn't turn into a whole multicellular organism. Sometimes it seems like the main thing people took away from the HeLa story was "aaaaah, spooky immortal cells!"
- whatshisface 4y agoAlthough it was hardly the only bad thing about the story, that someone's cancer outlived them by a century is is horrifying.
- roywiggins 4y agoIt's happened in the wild a couple times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_...
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