Quotes By Rebecca Skloot
The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
Rebecca Skloot
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
Rebecca Skloot
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.
Rebecca Skloot
Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.
Rebecca Skloot