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

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Source : Rebecca Skloot (2011). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

Rebecca Skloot

#Cells Quotes #Viruses Quotes #Mutation Quotes

“You don't ever lose your dream. You don't give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don't have dreams, you don't have anything to live for.”
“No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.”
“We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.”
“Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.”
“There are things in life that I enjoyed before music, so I'm just taking advantage of those things now that I can.”
“The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.”
“I'm much more optimistic about the future than I probably was.”
“It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.”

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