[fullwidth background_color="" background_image="" background_parallax="none" enable_mobile="no" parallax_speed="0.3" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" video_url="" video_aspect_ratio="16:9" video_webm="" video_mp4="" video_ogv="" video_preview_image="" overlay_color="" overlay_opacity="0.5" video_mute="yes" video_loop="yes" fade="no" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding_top="20" padding_bottom="20" padding_left="" padding_right="" hundred_percent="no" equal_height_columns="no" hide_on_mobile="no" menu_anchor="" class="" id=""]You might not have been able to follow or contribute to our Doctors Book Club for September, but it is never too late [...]

Living in the world of medicine there is probably little way that you have gotten this far without hearing at least once of the cell line Hela. The first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory. This monumental discovery made possible some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, [...]