Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca L. Skloot /ˈskluːt/is a freelance science writer who specializes in science and medicine. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, was one of the best-selling new books of 2010, staying on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 2 years, eventually reaching #1 and optioned to be made into a movie by Oprah Winfrey...
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consent people taken
The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
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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 them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
cells mutation immortal-life
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
cells done research
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 sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.