Although she never consented to her tissues being used for medical research, doctors at the time found her cells to have an extraordinary ability to replace themselves endlessly.
It is the technical term applied to stem cells that can generate many different sorts of bodily tissue, rather than just one sort, which is all that lesser stem cells can manage.
The focus of energy that organizes the physical body weakens, strays; the trance state, strongest at what you call early adulthood, begins to lose its hold even as in childhood it has not yet attained its full depth.
" What is that" ? Abel Halleck asked. The doctor explained. " It was a blood disease that caused the body to attack its own tissues. In time, it killed" .
Lupus is an autoimmune disease, which means that your body's defense system produces antibodies that attack the body's own tissues, due to the failure of the mechanisms which maintain self-tolerance.