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I was most surprised to learn that HeLa cells went to the moon! It astonishes me how far researchers go to discover what can be learned and accomplished. It is amazing that a microscopic piece of an abnormal growth can do so much. How ironic that a cell which multiplied so rapidly and killed a woman, is used to save the lives of millions of people.
I don't really have a scientific mind and prior to reading this book never gave a second thought about the process of medicinal breakthroughs. I have ...more
I don't really have a scientific mind and prior to reading this book never gave a second thought about the process of medicinal breakthroughs. I have ...more
This is the storyh of Henrieatta Lacks and her family. The author had to work extremely hard to finally get the whole story from the family. Henrietta Lacks was a young black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Doctors extracted some of her cancer cells and discovered that these cells were able to live and multiply. Doctors and scientists were able to use these Hela cells in the discovery of the polio vaccine, as well as studying various diseases, chromosomes and DNA. While scientists wer
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