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“Everyone in the audience knew what that meant. On top of saying they’d possibly wasted more than a decade and millions of research dollars, Gartler was also suggesting that spontaneous transformation—one of the most celebrated prospects for finding a cure for cancer—might not exist. Normal cells didn’t spontaneously become cancerous, he said; they were simply taken over by HeLa.”
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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― My Education: A Book of Dreams
― My Education: A Book of Dreams
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