http://www.metafilter.com/tags/cancerresearch Posts tagged with 'cancerresearch' at MetaFilter. Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:39:31 -0800 Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:39:31 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/20694/ Henrietta Lacks, a Baltimore housewife, died in 1951. <a href="http://www.slate.com/?id=2072092 ">Some of her cells did not die</a>. In fact, had they been allowed to grow unchecked, they <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0400web/01.html">would have taken over the world by now</a>. As it is, even as they proved invaluable to medical researchers, their baffling ability to regenerate resulted in contamination of three decades of cellular research, costing medical researchers millions of dollars. As far as science can tell, Henrietta's cells will never die. <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n08/enri01_.html ">Creepy</a>! tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.20694 Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:39:31 -0800 cancer cancerresearch cells microbiology stupidsexyFlanders