SYSK Selects: How HeLa Cells Work

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🗓️ 8 July 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this week's SYSK Select episode, after she was diagnosed with the cervical cancer that shortly killed her, a tissue sample was taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951 without her knowledge. Those cells would go on to become the first immortal line of human

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Hey everybody, this is Chuck and welcome to this week's Saturday Stuff You Should Know
0:35.4	Selects episode.
0:37.3	This week was my pick and I picked the episode on the Hila cells because I think this one
0:42.6	had a great mix of history and science.
0:48.2	History episodes are some of my favorites and we got to tell a little bit of the story
0:51.7	of the great Henrietta Lacks and on the science end we got to delve into the importance of
0:57.4	Hila cells.
0:58.4	So I hope you enjoy it this time around.
1:00.4	If you've heard it before, give it another listen.
1:09.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, GrimhouseToForks.com.
1:19.1	Hey and welcome to the podcast on Josh Clark and Charles W. Chuck Primes with me and
1:23.1	Jerry's with me and that means that the three of us all together make it Stuff You Should
1:27.1	Know.
1:28.1	Hey man, hey, good to see you.
1:30.9	So I'm pretty excited about this one actually.
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