Diagnosis. Cervical cancer, an especially aggressive form of the disease that despite radiation and surgery would have taken her life for months. That would have been where the story ended. Somewhere in the hospital Henrietta Lacks lived on, at least some of her did. Before henriettas death her doctors to a sample of her tissue to study inside a test tube. When they looked closely, they discovered something unusual for cells. Hers not only survived but thrived and multiplied in the live. In fact, henriettas cells were so resilient they were replicated again and again and again in laboratories all over the world and went on to become the most widely used cell for for human cellular and molecular biology. Those cells known as hela are the basis of breakthroughs. Jonas salk used them to develop the first vaccine for polio. Medical advances in vitrovertization, cell biology, Cancer Research and all things to hela cells. Since hela were not the first cells to be widely replicated but also s
0 side of the road. not just once but at least twice last year. this happened on separate occasions in both parts of texas. both cases remarkably similar. two women pulled over, questioned by a trooper, claiming to smell marijuana in the vehicle. no evidence of drugs found in either case. a female officer arriving on the scene, pulling on a pair of gloves and using the same pair of gloves to perform anal and vaginal searches. what you just saw was an illegal and unconstitutional search one the department of safety complains is not part of policy, whose blatant disregard for privacy rights of women as of last month was very much the official policy of the state of texas thanks to the republican legislature which a few weeks ago passed some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation taking a page from across the country that limited women s reproductive choice. these laws completely bypass the complex constitutional questions and the supreme court has grappled with in its roe de
the press about what shooter george zimmerman told police happened the night, one month ago, that trayvon was killed. the orlando sentinel says he gave up chasing him and trayvon martin approached him from behind. he says he punched him, knocked him down, and slammed his head on to the squaidewalk. he says he shot trayvon in self defense. but there are serious questions like the time between he old the operator he was pursuing him and when he shot him. there is about a one-minute gap that police say they re not sure what happened. and police say zimmerman s story contradicts what they saw and heard. we were in the kitchen, we heard the little boy crying, and the gun went off and the crying stopped. i believe this was not self-defense. i feel it was not self-defense because i heard the crying, and if it was simmerman that was crying, he would have continued crying after the shot went off. people that knew what trayvon was about as a person all say they can t believe he a
the orlando sentinel says he gave up chasing him and trayvon martin approached him from behind. he says he punched him, knocked him down, and slammed his head on to the squaidewalk. he says he shot trayvon in self defense. but there are serious questions like the time between he old the operator he was pursuing him and when he shot him. there is about a one-minute gap that police say they re not sure what happened. and police say zimmerman s story contradicts what they saw and heard. we were in the kitchen, we heard the little boy crying, and the gun went off and the crying stopped. i believe this was not self-defense. i feel it was not self-defense because i heard the crying, and if it was simmerman that was crying, he would have continued crying after the shot went off. people that knew what trayvon was about as a person all say they can t believe he attacked zimmerman. trayvon s former football coach says there s no way i can believe that because he s not a confron