Henrietta Lacks' cells are immortal. They are known as the…

I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.

— Adam Curtis

“Ultimately the judge threw Moore’s suit out of court, saying he had no case. Ironically, in his decision, the judge cited the HeLa cell…

— Rebecca Skloot

“A book that I would recommend for everyone: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

— Skloot

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

— Emile M. Cioran

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

— Clarence Darrow

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

— Rebecca Skloot

Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."

— Rosie O'Donnell

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting…

— Nelson Mandela

I like everything with a heaping dose of feminitity, including my cell phone. I created this phone for the classic woman, who like me,…

— Kimora Lee Simmons

To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't…

— Bill Maher

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because…

— Mark McGwire

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

— Hopsin

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

— Marc Almond

Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game…

— Kenneth Fisher

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends…

— Jay Leno