About 100,000 people were left homeless, many of whom lacking food or medical supplies.
At the individual level, studies have shown that social isolation (e.g., lacking someone with whom to discuss personal matters or to call on for a favor) has effects on mortality comparable to those of cigarette smoking (29).
The bigger news was that the descendants of Henrietta Lacks, from whom the cells were taken, finally gained some say in how that genetic information is used by scientists.
In June, for example, a Supreme Court decision barred patents on human genes; this month we read of a decision by the National Institutes of Health that gave descendants of Henrietta Lacks — from whom medically important HeLa cells derived — some involvement with the continuing exploration of her genome.
Several mentioned that the employment of a significant number of veterinarians (the lack of whom was a long-standing gripe amongst Nigerian veterinary associations) would be an important requirement.
It starts with a physics researcher who falls in love with an artificially generated spatial anomaly called "Lack", for whom she spurns her previous partner.
But the cells' use has also been the source of anxiety, confusion and frustration for the family of the woman, Henrietta Lacks, from whom the cells were taken without consent more than 60 years ago.
Our stability is threatened by the thousands of returnees from U.S. prisons and regional refugee camps, the bulk of whom are lacking in technical skills.
But her most important role was backstage, as an adviser, mediator and quiet counsellor to King and the other male giants of the civil-rights movement, few of whom were lacking in ego.
Furthermore, data are lacking in infants, in whom the postnatal adaptation of the circulatory and respiratory systems do not occur smoothly.
Trump voters, meanwhile, were overwhelmingly older men, most of whom lacked college degrees (which are tied to higher salaries).
