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Several months ago, when I got the pre-publication proofs of my book, I called Defler and (much to his surprise) told him about how that moment in his biology class more than 20 years ago had started me on a path that ended with

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My instructor, Donald Defler, a gnomish balding man, paced at the front of the lecture hall and flipped on an overhead projector.

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Defler paced the front of the classroom telling us how mitosis - the process of cell division - makes it possible for embryos to grow into babies, and for our bodies to create new cells for healing wounds or replenishing blood we've lost.

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"HeLa cells were one of the most important things that happened to medicine in the last hundred years," Defler said.

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I'd transferred to an alternative school that offered dream studies instead of biology, so I was taking Defler's class for high-school credit, which meant that I was sitting in a college lecture hall at sixteen with words like mitosis and kinase inhibitors flying around.

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Yes, Defler said, we had to memorize the diagrams, and yes, they'd be on the test, but that didn't matter right then.

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"Henrietta's cells have now been living outside her body far longer than they ever lived inside it," Defler said.

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"We learned that by studying cancer cells in culture," Defler said.

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Defler sees the expansion as an opportunity to further develop the business, increase profit and lower prices in the process.

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At 38,000 square feet, the new location will be 18,000 square feet larger than the present store and have 22 service bays, a dozen more than before, Defler said.

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