Rebecca Skloot Quotes

• Científicos y técnicos negros, muchos de ellos mujeres, utilizaron células de una mujer negra para ayudar a salvar la vida de millones de estadounidenses, la mayoría de ellos blancos. Y lo hicieron en el mismo campus -y en el mismo momento- en que funcionarios estatales llevaban a cabo los tristemente célebres estudios sobre la sífilis de Tuskegee.

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  Cells, White, Black

  Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.97, Broadway Books

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• Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

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  Writing, Thinking, Data

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• I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

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  Cells, Class, Firsts

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• Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

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  Brother, Attitude, Hate

  Rebecca Skloot (2011). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

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• The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

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  Thinking, Giving, Use

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• Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

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  Cells, Viruses, Mutation

  Rebecca Skloot (2011). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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• But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

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  Mean, Forever, Want

  Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.310, Broadway Books

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• 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.

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  Cells, Done, Research

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