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Could we call it "Fermented salmon tumor"?

• teaearlgraycold 1y ago
  "Fermented Salmon" sounds funny and relatively accurate to me. Why do you call it a tumor? Are the cells cancerous?
  • mapt 1y ago
    Multicellular life naturally exists in a well-ordered matrix according to a rough plan, not a blob in a petri dish, and when it deviates too much from that plan we have various pejorative words for it and feel various health consequences as a result of disordered growths. Tissue culture in general is more like cancer than not like cancer, even when using "non-cancerous" cell lines. But cancerous and "immortalized" cell lines are particularly useful in cell culture because they don't snuff themselves out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised_cell_line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised_cell_line
  • trhaynes 1y ago
    tumor (noun) An abnormal growth of tissue resulting from uncontrolled, progressive multiplication of cells and serving no physiological function; a neoplasm
  • Sn0wCoder 1y ago
    'benign tumor' maybe some Salmon Lipomas with crackers and cheese.