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“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 on it - and I think writing is the same way.” quote by Rebecca Skloot — Download Open 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 working on it - and I think writing is the same way.”

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

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“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. When this book went to press, their price per vial was $256. The ATCC won’t reveal how much money it brings in from HeLa sales each year, but since HeLa is one of the most popular…

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“Today an estimated 13 percent of birds are threatened, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. So are 25 percent of mammals and 41 percent of amphibians, in large part because of human activity. Hydropower and road construction imperil China’s giant pandas. The northern bald ibis, once abundant in the Middle East, has been driven almost to extinction…

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“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…

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“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…

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“Some things you got to release. Gary said. The more you hold them in, the worse you get. When you release them, they got…

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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,…

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“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 published “HeLa Hit Lists” in Science, listing any contaminated lines he found, along with the names of researchers who’d given him the cells. He didn’t warn researchers when he found that their cells had been contaminated…

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“THE SKY ABOVE northeast India looked like mango skin.”

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Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

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“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its…

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“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 line as a precedent for what happened with the Mo cell line. The fact that no one had sued over the growth or ownership of the HeLa cell line, he said, illustrated that patients didn’t mind…

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