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Everything can be studied in a microscope
Even snow crystals may be preserved and kept forever. This one fell on my terrace Dec. 28 2010. Selv snøkrystaller kan bevares og fotograferes i mikroskop. Denne falt ned på terrassen min 28 Desember 2010.
Even snow crystals may be preserved and kept forever. This one fell on my terrace Dec. 28 2010. Selv snøkrystaller kan bevares og fotograferes i mikroskop. Denne falt ned på terrassen min 28 Desember 2010.
How I became a scientist
This image was taken in Gausdal, Norway in 1963 during search for the chromosome number of Campanula barbata, a rare plant species in Norway, belonging to the same family as common harebells. A complete, but primitive chromosome lab was set up at its growing sites. We managed to detect meiotic stages just at the right moment making comparishions of cyto-genetics with plants from other European sites possible.
The microscope used was a gift from my father, a physician and Polyclinical Department Head at the University Psyciatric Clinic. I got interested in chromosomes as early as in 1953. My family lived then in a suburb outside Oslo next to a small botanicaL experimental field.
A botanist studying cyto-genetics of arctic poppies learned me to stain to stain chromosomes in pollen-mother cells in division with DNA-specific stains at the same time J.D. Watson and Francis Crick presented their DNA-structure model in Nature. How this was related to chromosomes was only superficially known, but the so-called Feulgen staining was then widely used.
In school I was interested in biology, chemistry and physics, found parts of mathematics a little boring, started university studies in 1958, my dr.thesis in microbiology in from 1971. I see now that this was far ahead of current knowledge at that time.
I had invented a simple method for staining chromosomes in so called filamentous fungi and discovered that mitosis in Penicillium is intranuclear, strongly differing from animal or plant mitosis. I also discovered a new cell organelle, "The Centriolar Plaque". Most Penicillia have four chromosomes (haploid stage). More than 30 years passed before my conclusions were confirmed by socalled puls-gel electrophoresis.
I am very interested in vintage cars, have had a number of beautiful Mercedeses and is a member of the Mercedes-Benz Club. I also own a Tesla S 85 2014 mod. car. My most important contribution to science ever is this: (maybe you have to retype this link to activate it) https://on-lyme.org/en/sufferers/lyme-stories/item/276-interview-with-professor-laane-about-the-suppression-of-microscopy-for-lyme-diagnostics Eller enklere, skriv på Google: lyme kraijeveld morten laane
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