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What HeLa Taught Us
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks premiered on HBO
- Overall Thoughts on the film
- Performances?
- Story?
- Accuracy?
- The HeLa Cells
- What are they? Why are they special?
- What advances have hey facilitated?
- Ethical Ramifications of human experimentation
- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/health/23book.html ; http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2793.htm
- Use of de-identified samples in medical research
As if on cue…news from NIH on research results and the human subjects who make them possible.
PFunk has freakishly amazing timing.
http://osp.od.nih.gov/under-the-poliscope/2017/05/fresh-look-rules-returning-research-results