In recent years, using tissue samples from themselves, their families, and their patients, scientists had grown cells of all kinds – prostate cancer, appendix, foreskin, even bits of human cornea – often with surprising ease. Researchers were using that growing library of cells to make historic discoveries: that cigarettes caused lung cancer; how X-rays and certain chemicals.
-Rebecca Skloot
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