I have read “The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks” and absolutely find it appalling that her cells were taken without her consent, and she and her family was never properly compensated.
I’ve only worked with HeLa cells once, and they were super hardy and easy to grow. Even if you forget to check on them for a week, they’ll start growing on top of each other when the monolayer becomes fully confluent. Easy to transfect as well.
Me in the lab needing to use FBS for routine cell culture media…
“We want a free market!”
“Wait, not like that”
As a kid I used to pronounce amoeba as “a-MO-ba” instead of “a-MEE-ba”.
I stopped eating at Chipotle many years ago when my local Chipotle caused dozens of food poisoning cases. Luckily there are lots of mom-and-pop burrito joints where I live, and their food is almost always better and cheaper than Chipotle.
Now do Chipotle next!
It’s the other way around. Fecundity is the measure of how well a person is biologically able to reproduce. Fertility is how many children people actually have, which also depends on voluntary choices.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118896877.wbiehs153
Noticed the legendary pepper brush and immediately looked for this comment
Unaffordable big pharma meds
This is my girl tiel, Jaina. She loooves scritches.
My two tiels go crazy over these toys made of lightweight sola wood. Highly recommend it!
I can’t recommend these clips enough. I roll a lot in my sleep, and my fitted sheet used to ride up every night. I installed these clips and the sheet has not budged since.