Listen to Fresh Air host Terry Gross's interview with Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and also check out the links below.
The YouTube video shows mitotic Hela cells (mechanochemistry.org).
In the image above, a doctor draws blood from a test subject in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a grossly unethical study that denied treatment for syphilis to its poor, African American subjects who were unaware they were part of an experiment. Explore the links below for more information.