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The woman who unwittingly helped every single one of us.

Written on March 27, 2011 at 10:37 pm, by

As a student studying genetics, I learn pivotal experiments which form the basis of our current understanding of DNA daily. Sometimes cell cultures (cells grown in dishes in the lab for research) are used in these experiments, especially those investigating cancer. Occasionally the HeLa cell line, one type of cell used in cell cultures, isContinue Reading