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Like it or not, we are on the fast track to a global energy crisis. Whether or not the climate is changing or species are dying, we simply cannot ignore the need for a new, alternative source of energy.
In 1951, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center created the first immortal human cell line. He used a tissue sample taken from a young black woman with cervical cancer named Henrietta Lacks. Her cells had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine.
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