HENRIETTA LACKS
at 30 she was pregnant
cancer
she died but not her "immortalized" cells
they reproduce identical themselves
doctors took a piece of tissues
HeLa became a study material
polio, parkinson disease and leukemia
until 1970 the role of hernietta was unknown for her family
2013 National istitutes of health
control over the HeLa cell genome data would be used
Henrietta Lacks biogaphy
21st century
debate over the consent of the family for the extraction and use of cells in research
Henrietta Lacks belonged to a very poor African American family
After her mother died in childbirth in 1924, her father moved with his 10 children to Clover, Virginia, where he divided them among relatives to be raised
Two members of the Lacks family reviewed the researchers' requests for information on HeLa.
henrietta grows up with her grandfather, who also raised her cousin david
Henrietta and David moved to Turner Station, Maryland, with their children
she was a mother of 5 children
she died on 4 October 1951 at the age of 31 from a cervical cancer
HeLa cells
76-80 chromosomes
researches
no dividing limits
genetics and cloning
human genome
drugs
radiation and toxic substances
polio vaccine
virus
George Gey distributes the HeLa to the laboratories
Mary Kubichek
an entire generation in just 24 hours