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With their health and genetics, more looking at specific markers to understand the cells. >> the book is called "the him mortal life of enry etta lacks." you said you were in biology class and im sure many of us can pick this up and learn from it. appreciate it. the white house received a lot of attention for the good it was doing. there was a noticeable absence that got us talking, next. you need to change your lifestyle. dermatologists have these money saving tips. before bed, get rid of g...

The research. to this day, they cant afford health insurance. and they say, mothers cells were so important to medicine, why cant we go toç the doctor. >> what is their recourse? >> not a lot of recourse, there were no laws broken. it was standard practice to take cells from people and today you have to get someones permission and if theres not, they can take them for standard purposes to be stored and not a lot that can be done now since it was so long ago. ? any research done on her descenda...

Cells when i was 16 in a basic biology class. for some reason my teacher knew her name, reasonable henrietta lacks on the black board and that was it. it stuck with me. who was this woman and why did her cells grow and did she have a family and what did they think about it? i worked on it several decades. you ask what people take away from it. theres a lot of important history, a story about race and class and education and raises a lot of current issues were still dealing with today in terms o...

>> yeah. i could have probably filled several books with the research done on her cells. they were the first cells ever cloned, genes first ever mapped and plants canplants-kander -- medicine and lactose intolerance, there wasnt much that wasnt helped by these cells. >> the fact is henrietta was never compensated for her countless contributions, especially modern medicine. >> henrietta never knew it happened. she died a few months later from the cervical cancer. she had five kids when she died a...

Welcome back. one of the most important scientific discovers the past century comes from a poor african-american tobacco farmer who died six months ago. her cells have been used to treat polio and even aging. before i doing of cervical cancer, she had the biopsy cells removed and biopsied in a lab and found her cells could reproduce infinitely outside her body, the first to do so. it exams the life of the woman and her trickses to the world. im joined by rebecca, the books author. good to have y...