The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you … - Rebecca Skloot

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Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed His words and the words of His chosen servants will find peace and understanding even in the midst of great heartache and sorrow. The result of His sacrifice is to free us from the effects of sin, that all may have guilt erased and feel hope.

Rebecca Skloot

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. '

Access, Care, Giving, Thinking, Use

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Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

Black, Cells, Infamous, Technicians, White

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

Basic, Biology, Cells, Class, Firsts

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.

Forever, Living, Mean, Sad, Want

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.

Attitude, Brother, Brothers, Hate, Times

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

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