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                    [Title] => Truly immortal
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I kept imagining her cells as they were embedded on a 14” x 20” frame.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1489734 [AuthorName] => Maria Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 720852 [Title] => Don't cell yourself short [Summary] =>

 A poor black woman enters John Hopkins Hospital, Virginia, in 1951; the 40-year-old woman is diagnosed with cervical cancer, and before undergoing radium treatment, a biopsy of her cancerous cervical cells is taken and placed in a lab; the woman dies from the cancer, but her cells live on, multiplying in lab Petri dishes like wild mushrooms; despite the mutation caused by cancer, the cells seem to thrive, taking over any environment in which they’re placed.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Truly immortal
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I kept imagining her cells as they were embedded on a 14” x 20” frame.

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 A poor black woman enters John Hopkins Hospital, Virginia, in 1951; the 40-year-old woman is diagnosed with cervical cancer, and before undergoing radium treatment, a biopsy of her cancerous cervical cells is taken and placed in a lab; the woman dies from the cancer, but her cells live on, multiplying in lab Petri dishes like wild mushrooms; despite the mutation caused by cancer, the cells seem to thrive, taking over any environment in which they’re placed.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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