All 5 Uses of
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- There, lawyers could use the Nuremberg Code to establish whether a scientist was acting within the ethical boundaries of the profession.
Chpt 2.17 *establish = determine (figure out)
- And they recommended that the NIH establish a reference collection of cells: a central bank where all cultures would be tested, cataloged, and stored under maximum security, using state-of-the-art sterile techniques.
Chpt 2.18establish = create and maintain
- Their mission was to establish a nonprofit federal cell bank at the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), which had been distributing and monitoring the purity of bacteria, fungi, yeast, and viruses since 1925, but never cultured cells.
Chpt 2.18
- On March 9, 1973, the journal Nature published a letter from J. Douglas, a biologist at Brunel University: It is twenty-one years since George Gey established the famous HeLa cells in culture.
Chpt 2.22 *established = created
- The difference between Ted Slavin, John Moore, and Henrietta Lacks was that someone told Slavin his tissues were special and that scientists would want to use them in research, so he was able to control his tissues by establishing his terms before anything left his body.
Chpt Aft.establishing = setting in place
Definitions:
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(1)
(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2)
(establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)