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The three thousand year journey of colchicine(worksinprogress.news)
25 points by quadrin 8 days ago | 3 comments
CheeseFromLidl 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I opened the article expecting to read about its use in plant breeding: colchicine is renowned there for inducing polyploidy. Never knew it has a history in medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploidy

kubafu an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Never heard of it, please tell me more about using it in plant breeding!

34679 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Same here. I have a bottle in my freezer for that purpose.