The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them whi… - Rebecca Skloot
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them whi…
- Rebecca Skloot
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working … - Rebecca Skloot
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working …
Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different. - Rebecca Skloot
Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. - Rebecca Skloot
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of sc… - Rebecca Skloot
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of sc…
The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is … - Rebecca Skloot
The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is …
But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while… - Rebecca Skloot
But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while…
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on. - Rebecca Skloot
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
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