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Section 3 - The First Immortal Cell Line Section 4 - The Journey of HeLa
Section 3 - The First Immortal Cell Line
Section 4 - The Journey of HeLa
Insight into Gey labs
The culture of HeLa
Mary Kubicek - story about red nail varnish
Roller Drum technique
Not patented - Gey was not interested in profit
First announcement of cell line
Gey on national television
Believed he had found the cure to cancer
Gey shared the cells liberally with other scientists for no financial benefit to himself - this shows that his only interests were scientific benefit and did not intend to misuse the cells
Uses of HeLa
Jonas Salk experiment
Creation of HeLa factory
Occuring at the same time as Tuskegee Syphilis Trials
This shows the disregard of some scientists for using black people in research without proper informed consent
Polio Vaccine
Gives an idea of the impact that HeLa cells have had on the lives of others
Discuss how bad the outbreak was
$10 fee charged per phial - no profits given to the family
Give the other uses
First cells in space
Used in first cloning techniques
Discovery of telomerase which has led to the discover of HPV, the cause of cervical cancer
The profit made from HeLa
Sold by several biotech companies
Invitrogen, BioWhittaker
Invitrogen - between $100 and $10,000 per phial
No profit given to the Lacks family despite the million dollar industry that has been built on HeLa
The Lacks are still unable to afford adequate healthcare or a decent education