first immortal human cells. To which they replied, Can I have some? And George said yes.

who tracked down every good novel she could find with a disjointed structure, all of which I devoured while trying to figure out the structure of this book.

Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans,

I’m glad she did, cause that mean she helpin lots of people. I think she would like that. But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford to see no doctors? Don’t make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don’t get

What they found was disturbing: in mission after mission, noncancerous cells grew normally in orbit, but HeLa became more powerful, dividing faster with each trip.

Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory.

Gene patents are the point of greatest concern in the debate over ownership of human biological materials, and how that ownership might interfere with science. As

The debate over the commercialization of human biological materials always comes back to one fundamental point: like it or not, we live in a market-driven society, and science is part of that market.

Pneumoencephalography