IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mike Webster, Bennet Omalu, Rebecca Skloot
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They basically sacrificed their father to this game. If somebody told them, "we"ll take care of your dad [but] we gave him a spaghetti brain and we"ll give you a million dollars. " "there was an unwritten rule in the nfl -- if you can play, under any circumstances, you play. : no matter the injury. He poured his heart and his soul into the game of football, but "but he was slowly, literally, losing his mind. "one thing i found out later was that after football, 60 percent of marriages fail. There was no structure, nobody handling the details. Her tumors changed the history of medicine. As i graduated from high school and worked my way through college toward a biology degree, hela cells were omnipresent. I heard about them in histology, neurology, pathology; i used them in experiments on how neighboring cells communicate.