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Re:Woman with Immortal Cells by djacobs on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @12:30PM (#2049436)
I think the title is a pun.

The cells, as cancer, are immortal. But they will also be immortal for much longer than a typical patient's cancer cells because her particular cells have been commandeered for research.

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Re:Woman with Immortal Cells by lkrubner on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @01:38PM (#2049662)
I was complaining about this sentence, which uses the past tense and which sounds like it is about a specific individual:

"Today I found out there was once a woman who had immortal cells."

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