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pretty much every molecular biologist knows of Helen Lacks. Considering her name was Henrietta Lacks, you just disproved your own statement. ;-)
by bedris 17y ago
pretty much every molecular biologist knows of Helen Lacks.
Considering her name was Henrietta Lacks, you just disproved your own statement. ;-)
- timr 17y agoD'oh! Touché. ;-) (Not that it's an excuse, but there's actually a relevant reason for screwing that up: in one of my first labs, people referred to them as "Helen Lang" cells, presumably because they didn't know the name of the woman, just the story of her uterine cancer. Hard habit to break, I guess.)
- bedris 17y agoNo worries. HeLa cells have become so mutated over the years that they might as well have been isolated from Henry Laurens.