All Rebecca Skloot Quotes
- Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. Become Immortal
- 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… Americans
- 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… Always Telling
- I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on. Basic
- 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… Cells
- 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… Cause
- 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… All
- Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would… Black