Senescence tale

Replicative Senescence: An Old Lives' Tale?

underlying cause of organismic aging. This idea is much more controversial and less intuitively obvious. How did Life Sciences Division Department of Cancer Biology it come about, and what is the evidence for it? The observation that cell division is inherently limited contradicted an earlier belief, championed by Carrel, Normal animal cells, with few exceptions, do not divide that vertebrate c...

Auxin involvement in tepal senescence and abscission in Lilium: a tale of two lilies

Petal wilting and/or abscission terminates the life of the flower. However, how wilting and abscission are coordinated is not fully understood. There is wide variation in the extent to which petals wilt before abscission, even between cultivars of the same species. For example, tepals of Lilium longiflorum wilt substantially, while those of the closely related Lilium longiflorum×Asiatic hybrid ...

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

Tale fin

A few readers of my last two columns may have suspected that something was afoot. Why, they might ask, does he suddenly produce not one, but two confessions? After shamefacedly exposing his tendency to consider book theft as a way of acquiring knowledge and trying to reverse the hint of plagiarism in his works by suggesting that it was the other way around, we might expect anything. Well, the e...