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I forgot to flail about this last night: yay, Martin Brodeur!

Except the local TV announcer made me cringe, because he called him Martine Brodeur, and said he surpassed Patrick Roy, whose surname rhymed with "toy", not the French "rwa" sound.



Theoretically, if I were to drive to Austin on Saturday to hang out and stalk Black Gold, who in Houston would be interested in tagging along?

so *that* is what happens to that bit of skin?

I'm reading a JCB paper that describes culturing cells in low-calcium medium to prevent adherens junction formation, and seriously. SERIOUSLY. This is in the methods section:

Normal human keratinocytes from newborn foreskin (strains z, kb, kc, and kd, passage 3-6) were cultured[...]

I know that all the cell lines and samples we use came from patients originally, but they are from patients who consented to having their cervical cancer or breast cancer biopsies used for research purposes.

NEWBORNS' FORESKINS? REALLY?