This is a pretty incredible story (if you can hack through the - TopicsExpress



          

This is a pretty incredible story (if you can hack through the scientific stuff) I dont pretend to follow much of it myself, but behind the technical jargon it seems that this woman, Henrietta Lacks, had cancer and the doctors took a sample and it turned out to be immortal in the sense that it did not eventually cease replicating as human cells normally do. The scientists went on to use the cells in cultures in experiments on a global scale... Even the pictures are pretty awesome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:18:07 +0000

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