Hela Quote by Rebecca Skloot

Henrietta Lacks' cells are immortal. They are known as the HeLa cell line, and they have become deeply involved in all sorts of medical…

— Adam Curtis

“The (cancer) cells, technically speaking, are immortals. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

— Max Delbruck

“But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Rebecca Skloot

“angry—angry that Henrietta’s cells were being sold for twenty-five dollars a vial, and angry that articles”

— Rebecca Skloot

“Basically, a fertile little cancer cell reproduces to be two cells in about one hundred days, then four cells at two hundred days,”

— Teresa Rhyne

“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.”

— Self

“Indeed, if not told to live -- if not given some kind of active instruction from another cell -- cells automatically kill themselves. Cells…

— Bill Bryson

“How fortunate that science hasn't cracked human immortality. It's a great blessing that we can outlive old wars. And old warriors.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells…

— Alexis Carrel

“There wasn't a single cell in our bodies that was the same as the day we were born, and yet we were still held…

— Jennifer duBois