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51: She’s in OUR DNA?! Who is Henrietta Lacks?

Dark History

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Dr. Carell's Laboratory

Dr. Carell believed that not only did sunlight kill cell cultures, he also thought that too much sunlight could mess with your brain. Everything in his lab is like painted black. Behind him though, you would find like a wall of shelving with jars just filling up all the empty spaces. Now each one of these jars would be filled with human organs. Like he was going to do it. He wanted to live forever. Why do white old men always want to live forever? I don't get it.

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