@rappingwithmrjackson: 🧬 BLACK FACT OF THE WEEK! ✊🏾🖤 Did you know a Black woman helped pioneer cancer research AND investigated how melanin protects our skin from radiation?! 👀☀️ Meet Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb, a groundbreaking cell biologist whose research helped scientists better understand how cancer cells grow, divide, and respond to chemotherapy! 🧪 But here’s where the science gets CRAZY! 🤯 Cancer can begin with changes in the DNA of a SINGLE cell, but those changes can eventually disrupt entire tissues, damage organs, affect multiple organ systems, and threaten the survival of the whole organism! And that melanin in your skin? 👨🏾‍🔬 It actually helps absorb UV radiation and protect your cells’ DNA from damage! But even with that natural protection, skin cancer is still possible ⚠️ From CELLS ➡️ TISSUES ➡️ ORGANS ➡️ ORGAN SYSTEMS ➡️ ORGANISMS, this is why understanding the levels of biological organization is so important! 💬 QUESTION: If our bodies have mechanisms to repair damaged DNA and destroy abnormal cells, how do cancer cells manage to survive and keep multiplying? 🤔👇🏾 #BlackFact #JewelPlummerCobb #blackhistory365 #rappingwithmrjackson #fyp

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