Quotes by Rebecca Skloot

About Rebecca Skloot:

Rebecca L. Skloot is a freelance science writer who specializes in science and medicine. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), was one of the best-selling new books of 2010, staying on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 2 years, eventually reaching #1 and optioned to be made into a movie by Oprah Winfrey.
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For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

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They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock. As normal cells go through life, their telomeres shorten with each divi...

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Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

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As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards—independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and ba...

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When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can’t do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

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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.

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I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

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The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

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Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

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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.

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The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

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Author Bio

  • NameRebecca Skloot
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1972
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist