@Adam_Cadmon1
Not to mention the whole #HenriettaLacks #HeLaCells debacle.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henriettalacks/
#HenriettaLacks #HeLaCells #medicalresearch
#JohnHopkins #BlackHistoryMonth #blackheros #ContributionToTheWorld
#BlackHistoryMonth #blackmastodon

RT @somssichm@twitter.com

That's pretty cool 👇👍👌 #HeLaCells

https://abcn.ws/3G776OF Henrietta Lacks, the Baltimore woman whose HeLa cells were taken without her consent by Johns Hopkins in 1951, is being honored with a statue in her Roanoke birthplace.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/somssichm/status/1608746552486662145

That's pretty cool 👇👍👌 #HeLaCells #CellBiology #ImportantWomen #Legacy

https://abcn.ws/3G776OF Henrietta Lacks, the Baltimore woman whose HeLa cells were taken without her consent by Johns Hopkins in 1951, is being honored with a statue in her Roanoke birthplace.

Apologies! BookVent kinda got derailed it was a busy, long week.

Day 6 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

It's immeasurable the role in lives saved & harm reduction that HeLa cells have had. However the cell line development is ext. problematic - non-consenting tissue theft from a Black woman dying of cervical cancer. This is of the books that made me change the way I view science in general.

#Racism #HeLaCells #HenriettaLacks #Science #BookVent