WEIRD THINGS IN OUR CELL CULTURES

[RYBICKI, ED]

> Don't laugh-it happens to everyone.  We keep getting round things 
in our tissue culture that are almost as big as a
> Hela cell.  They float.  They look like they have a thick wall, 
although
> there are also forms that seem as if they have no wall.  [delete] 
 Even if they're not alive, we need to identify them because they
> could be affecting our experiments.
> 
> Has anyone had any experience with anything like this???  Thank 
you.

You see, it is even as I said:

"And slimy things did walk, with legs
Upon our slimy plates..."

Things are being created in the lab, people - better get used to 
it....

 
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