"Henrietta's" what?: A prudish response

I just feel compelled to react to the cover of the latest issue of Nature that dropped over the transom.  It, to me personally, reflects th...

Bullshit factorethicsHenrietta Lacks

HeLa cells and cavalier scientists

Last week came the news that the HeLa cell genome had been sequenced and published.  HeLa are cells that were taken from the tumor that even...

ethicsHenrietta Lacks