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Baitball Blogger

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Tue Jun 5, 2012, 03:21 PM Jun 2012

How long before the evil doers in the USA figure out how to turn the immortal cells of Henrietta [View all]

Lacks into a biological weapon?

If you haven't read about Henrietta Lacks, you can find a summary here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/product-description/1400052173

She died of cancer. It's her cells which were immortal. They're still alive today though the woman died years ago. It's great for research because most cancer cells kill their host. However, now that you have cancer cells that can survive the host's demise, how long before they figure out how to use it as a weapon to discretely put targets down?

PS this is reposted. I prematurely deleted it because I thought this was improperly put in GD. No, I don't want this in GD because it's just crazy enough of a premise to work in the Lounge.

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