Consent to use the cells and disseminate them around the world was never obtained. Henrietta never knew that she was being so generous.
And if cells could be immortal, then what about people? Lots of folks thought these cells would unlock the secrets of reversing aging.īut there's a wrinkle in this fairy tale.
Henrietta's cells were sent to labs around the world and were used in some of the major lifesaving medical discoveries of the 20th century: the polio vaccine, understanding of the human chromosome, the first steps toward organ transplantation, in-vitro fertilization techniques, and treatments for cancer. He sent them to a lab, where they reproduced and grew like crazy, resulting in an "immortal" cell line called HeLa that offered scientists a limitless supply of human cells on which they could experiment to their hearts' content. For one thing, it was growing like gangbusters. Henrietta's tumor was like nothing HoJo had ever seen. When Johns Hopkins gynecologist Howard Jones got his first glimpse of his patient Henrietta Lacks' cervical cancer, he was shocked. Critics raved that Skloot told a complex scientific and personal story with brains and heart. It won book awards and showed up on common reading lists for hundreds of colleges and high schools. When it was published in 2010 after a decade of research, it jumped onto the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for 75 weeks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells that story. She wants the world to know the person behind the science. She vows to learn everything she can about this woman and her mysterious cells. He says that Henrietta's cells, taken from a cervical cancer tumor that eventually killed her, were the first to be successfully grown in the lab and were responsible for a whole slew of important advances in medicine in the past 45 years. Sixteen year-old college freshman Rebecca Skloot is about to nod off in bio class when the instructor starts talking about a woman named Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Introduction
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