“If our mother so important to science, why can’t we get health insurance?” — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“She's the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science,… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change… — 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
“But more than anything, they worried that since everyone was using different media ingredients, recipes, cells, and techniques, and few knew their… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Genetically speaking, humans are terrible research subjects. We're genetically promiscuous--we mate with anyone we choose--and we don't take kindly to scientists telling… — 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
“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
“As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had… — 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
“many scientists have interfered with science in precisely the way courts always worried tissue donors might do. “It’s ironic,” she told me.… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“I later learned that while Elsie was at Crownsville, scientists often conducted research on patients there without consent, including one study titled… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Gene patents are the point of greatest concern in the debate over ownership of human biological materials, and how that ownership might… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
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… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“The American Type Culture Collection—a nonprofit whose funds go mainly toward maintaining and providing pure cultures for science—has been selling HeLa since the sixties.… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Today an estimated 13 percent of birds are threatened, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. So are 25 percent of mammals… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“an idea hit him, he sat wherever he was—at his desk, kitchen table, a bar, or behind the wheel of his car—gnawing on his… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if you gonna… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Some things you got to release. Gary said. The more you hold them in, the worse you get. When you release them, they got… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
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,… — 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 vigilante who… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home. — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
