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| The theme for this issue is cells. The beauty and unexpected changes of cells are very moving, but they are not visible to the naked eye. They seem very distant from our daily lives, so is it possible they could ever become the object of our affections (philos)? The very foundation of life, however, is to be found in cells. The emotion of love (philos) toward cells and to life naturally emerges from some of the words spoken by the people appearing in this issue. This gives rise to the question of whether loves (philos) lies at technology. Our Dialogue in this issue is about the love of cells. The subjects discussed by Tokindo Okada, the previous general director of the Hall, range from the beauties of nature in Japan to cell cultivation. The topics cover everything under the sun, and finally wind up on eroticism. The Research section covers clones and regenerative medicine, from the view point of biohistory. Dr. Ishino considers the question of time implanted in a generation from the perspective of the genome imprinting mechanism. Dr. Nishikawa digs into the mechanism of stem cells that create a time axis differing in each individual. The ideas of both of them lie behind the most advanced technology. Finally, in the Scientist Library, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa talks about depicting the mitotic apparatus and mechanism of inheritance for organelles using a microscope, and his feeling for the birth of eucaryotic cells. (Keiko Nakamura) |
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