Cells that go back in time (and the Saiyans who love them)

Read this article.

Now, this is strictly for the geeks and such who read this: what is the first thing you thought of when reading this? Seriously, this can serve as a sort of litmus test for "What type of geek are you?" See, p. sent it to me assuming I would automatically share in his thought that it was like The Lizard from Spider-Man come to life in modern science. Even being a Spider-Man fan, I never even thought of this once. All I could see was Dragon Ball Z. I mean, they use the words "Cell" "time travel" and "original form" in almost the same sentence...how could I help but think of the perfect android? Quite frankly, I don't know how a writer for a science magazine could not have at least a little geek in them to want to make at least an oblique reference. Perhaps the fact they constantly refer to this cellular dedifferentiation as "time-travel" was her own little nod to the Cell Saga. Can you imagine the e-mails she must be getting from the REALLY hardcore fans who were googling "cell time travel".....I think I want to add to that list. I need to know if it was intentional.