Carcineidolia
By PHIL PLAIT - BAD ASTRONOMY
Added: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:09:51 UTC
If there is any definition of "ironic", it must be a smiley face seen in a cancerous cell:
Australian researchers at the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research were investigating how the protein beta-catenin invades a cell’s nucleus and causes it to become cancerous, when they spotted the protein apparently mocking them. You can see this a bit more clearly in the video they made:
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