Wow, centrosomes attract a strange crowd.
Strange theories about centrosomes are plentiful. Some quacks have claimed that they are , "the eyes of the cell", some sort of quantum pulse generator that secretes consciousness and now a turbine.
Ian Musgrave at Panda's thumb posted a summary of how ID proponents ... really don't have a clue about centrosome research.
(Also FrinkTank proposes its own centrosome theory - sorry Dan, I guess two central spots is a lot sexier than theories on cancer/dedifferentiation.)
More like this
A new paper provides evidence that certain RNAs associate with centrosomes and may represent a centrosomal RNA genome. Furthermore this potential genome includes an enzyme that could copy the centrosomal associated RNA. But first some background.
Yes I wrote about centrosome kissing and then ... another paper appears in Nature Cell Biology.
But this time it's not in mammalian cells but in yeast. Remember what I once said:
So I heard about this PNAS paper all summer long but never got around to reading it until yesterday.
Guess you all have heard by now Yoko lost (EMIs suit is still pending).