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World News with Diane Sawyer
The Washington Post “Studying a Relic of a Painful Past” By Daniel de Vise, August, 12, 2005
New York Times “Justices Send Back Gene Case” By Andrew Pollack, March 26,2012
Wired Magazine “Henrietta Everlasting: 1950s Cells Still Alive, Helping Science” By Erin Biba, January 25, 2010
: Includes HeLa Time Line – in color
New York Times Article on Ted Slavin, April 16, 2006 “Taking the Least of You” By Rebecca Skloot
Henrietta Lacks Foundation
The Henrietta Lacks Foundation
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History of Cancer Timeline
American Cancer Society “What Causes Cancer”
Genetics and Cancer/Tobacco and Cancer/Diet and Physical Activity/Sun and UV Exposure/Other Carcinogens
The Florida State University “Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma Cells (HeLaLine) By Michael W. Davidson
Article with fluorescence images of human cervical adenocarcinoma (HeLa) cells
Cancer Related Poems “Poems, Philosophy and Cancer”
Poetry “Choose Hope” Serving the Cancer Community.
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Johns Hopkins Magazine Article on Henrietta Lacks “Henrietta’s Dance”
Johns Hopkins Medicine Statement about HeLa Cells and Their Use (02/01/2010
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Information on John Moore’s Case Institute for Health Freedom “Who Owns Your Genetic Information?”
Hippocratic Oath
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues “Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research”
Law and Contemporary Problems “Human Experimentation: Ethics in the Consent Situation” By John Fletcher Vol. 32, No. 4, Medical Progress and the Law (Autumn, 1967), pp. 620-649 Published by: Duke University School of Law
American Medical Association's Page on Medical Ethics
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BioTechniques (The International Journal of Life Science Methods) “Ending Cell Line Contamination by Cutting Off Researchers / Top Cell Feature of 2010” by Erin Podolak
Gene Boy
Workforce Development in Stem Cell Research “Hayflick Limit and Henrietta Lacks”
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Sickle Cell Anemia and Research Funding
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Wellcome Trust Q&A with Rebecca Skloot
Nature Reviews Volume 3, March 2002, “Genetic Counselling and Customary Cosanguineous Marriage” By Bernadette Modell and Aamra Darr
Crownsville State Hospital Photographs
Smithsonian.com “Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells” By Sarah Zielinski, January 22, 2010
PilotOnline.com, May 30, 2010 “After 60 Years of Anonymity, Henrietta Lacks has a Headstone”
Article on Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty Lemelson-MIT Program – Inventor of the Week
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