“The American Type Culture Collection—a nonprofit whose funds go mainly toward maintaining and providing pure cultures for science—has been selling HeLa since… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Nelson-Rees had since been hired by the National Cancer Institute to help stop the contamination problem. He would become known as a… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the judge threw Moore’s suit out of court, saying he had no case. Ironically, in his decision, the judge cited the… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“George Gey paid his way through a biology degree at the University of Pittsburgh by working as a carpenter and mason, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried to imagine how she’d feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Soon after Harris’s HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Everyone in the audience knew what that meant. On top of saying they’d possibly wasted more than a decade and millions of… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Day wouldn’t have understood the concept of immortal cells or HLA markers coming from anyone, accent or not—he’d only gone to school… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Since the Common Rule says that research subjects must be allowed to withdraw from research at any time, these experts have told… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
