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“I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.”

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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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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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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