By Mark M. Lambert, Des Moines University Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks…
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What do a Black scientist, nonprofit executive and filmmaker have in common? They all face racism in the ‘gray areas’ of workplace culture
By Adia Harvey Wingfield, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis American workplaces talk a lot about diversity…
Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks that produced modern day miracles
By Deion Scott Hawkins, Emerson College In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the…
What are HeLa cells? A cancer biologist explains
By Ivan Martinez, West Virginia University In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta…
