So this morning as I was hurriedly getting ready for school (since I'd accidentally turned off my alarm), I was rushing through my living room when I heard a story teaser about scientists growing a heart in the lab on "Good Morning America." Now it's not every day you hear about people growing entire [...]
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When we learned about mitosis gone awry a few weeks ago, we talked about how cancer cells do not display density-dependent inhibition, nor do they display contact inhibition. In short, cancer cells are not familiar with the concept of personal space, nor do they realize they're hogging the space they're in. A new [...]
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In 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks unknowingly became one of medical history's most important sources of information about cancer. She also became one of biomedical ethics' most controversial figures--both celebrated and reviled, through no fault of her own.
Lacks went into the hospital in February of that year complaining of a [...]
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