Lawrence owned a store in the basement of the old townhouse, Sonny graduated from high school, joined the air force, then honourably discharged.
Joe did not live a great lifestyle. He got crazier over the years, always getting into trouble and fighting. He had stabbed a man and faced 15 years in prison. Crazy Joe would find Islam and changed his name to Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman.
I feel so bad for Deborah... She seemed to always face adversity... She got pregnant in her junior year of high school. Cheetah(Deborah's Husband) was an alcoholic and would beat up Deborah. She would later leave Cheetah and would find refuge at her Father's house. Deborah struggled being a single mother while working two jobs.
In September 1966 geneticist Stanley Gartler and George Gey found a "technical problem" in their field. They would soon discuss the future of cell culture. "The room buzzed with excitement as everyone talked about cell cloning and hybrids, mapping human genes, and using cultures to cure cancer".(Skloot 152)
Gartler found an amazing discovery of how 18 of the most commonly used cell cultures had one thing in common. They all contained the same genetic marker called "glucose-6phosphate dehydrogenase-A (G6PD-A)". (Skloot 152)
The scientists made the breakthrough that since the HeLa cells came from a black woman that he found the answer for the problem. All the cell cultures are "all HeLa cell contaminants".
In this case, HeLa cells contaminated other cell cultures and scientists would soon enough had been growing and regrowing HeLa cells this whole time. The assumption occurred that a cure for cancer might not even exist....
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