Sublime

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

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

“What are we going to do,” he says, “throw them all out?”

consent for storing tissues for research, there is no clear requirement for telling donors when their tissues might result in profits.

“Pounding in the back of their heads was a gnawing feeling that science and the press had taken advantage of them.”

Laboratories—to begin producing and selling ingredients

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.