Opinion and Interpretation

This section is really helping me to understand what the book is talking about. I like this reading article because it talks about Henrietta Lacks Immortal cells. Who is Henrietta and what happened to this person. Author has completed details to descript this book and Henrietta. It will help us to read this book more clearly, and know what happened to Henrietta and her family. It also talk about the Hela cells from and why calls Hela. And why Hela’s cells are important.

When I read the English I will try to find the words that I don’t understand the meaning. Read the topic; try to understand what the author talk is about. Something when I really don’t   understand I will ask my friends or check on line. Something English will be easy than my native language, because English is easy write than my native language, and English is easy to understand, but I have to have enough vocabulary and grammar. So why most people think English is hard for them, because the grammar and vocabulary.

I have the dictionary and I usually read English when I got free.

The summary of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks page 93-136

According to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks page 93-136. It tell us what happened to Henrietta since she was gone. In this part skloot describes how Hela cells were used to mass produce a polio vaccine, to develop reliable cell culture and cell storage methods, to develop clonal cell lines, to visualize human chromosomes, and to test new drug candidates, among many other breakthroughs.

We also learn about how the name Helen Lane was disseminated to hide the true identitu of Henrietta Lacks, a misunderstanding that persists to this day among many researchers. We also learn about the cavalier attitude of some physicians in this era, and specifically how a virologist named Chester Southam deliberately injected, without any consent, patients as well as Ohio state prisoners with Hela cells to see if they would form tumors in people-something that would be in conceivable today. In fact, Southam only stopped his human experiments when three physicians working for him at the Jewish Chronic desease Hospital refused to inject patients without consent because they believed it violated the Nuremberg code, established after the Nazis experimented on prisoners in concentration camps during World War II.

      

The summary of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

The summary of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

According to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks page67-92. In this chapter skloot describes how Henrietta married her cousin and left rural poverty on a tobacco farm in Virginia for Baltimore. She had five children and then one day walked into the coloured ward of the Johns Hopkins complaining that “I got a knot on my womb.” Despite treatment, she died in agony 10 months later, tied to her bed as she convulsed in pain. “That cancer was a terrible thing,” one of Henrietta’s cousins told skloot years later. cooties is Henrietta’s cousin and says that she is a nice person and she helps him because him because his polio.

Skloot spends too long with Henrietta’s family, but she is clearly fulfilling a promise to them. If science has exploited Henrietta Lacks she is determined not to. This biography ensures that she will never again be reduced to cells in a Petri dish: she will always be Henrietta as well as HeLa.

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After read each group’s post, I think people should treat tumor on the time, if they don’t.  the tumor will become malignant and kill themselves.  Henrietta Lacks was one of them, if she fined it earlier, she might live more time. And in that time was not fair for color people, they had to work on the tobacco fields. There were on or less job opportunities for colored people.

The following questions of The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

1. The Tuskegee Institute opens the first “HeLa factory” in 1952’s. The first company that would begin selling HeLa for profit was called Microbiological Associates.

2. Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920’s.

3. George Gey successfully culture the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’ cervix in 1951. It is given the name HeLa after the first two initials of Henrietta’s first and last names.

4. Scientists used Hela cells to help develop the polio vaccine in 1952.

5. The name of the hospital where Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer is Johns Hopkins hospital in 1889.

6. Hela cells become the first cells ever cloned in 1953.

The summary of The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lakcs Page 34-66

According to the immortal life of Henrietta lacks page 35-66. This chapter talk about “the birth of Hela”. In this part we learn about the incredible scientific opportunities that HeLa cells opened for researchers. Henrietta Lacks was a poor African American woman who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The surgeon on duty,  Dr. Lawrence Wharton Jr. was preparing to insert a tube with radium into Henrietta’s cervix to treat her cancer. While she was unconscious, Dr. Wharton cut out two dime-size chunks from her cervis and sent them to Dr. George Gey, who was trying to figure out how to grow cells in the laboratory, outside of an organism.

        

         Although Dr. Gey had tried and failed at this many times, for some unknown reason Henrietta’s cells would be different from all of the others, and would in fact thrive in a laboratory culture dish. Although she never consented to this tissue donation she provided the material that initiated the field of tumor cell culture.

       HeLa cells were used to mass produce a polio vaccine to develop reliable cell culture and cell storage methods, to develop clonal cell lines, to visualize human chromosomes, and to test new drug candidate, among many other breakthroughs.

In early June, Henrietta told her Doctors a few times that she thought the cancer was spreading. On august 8, New tumors seemed to appear daily. Before she died, George told to her colleague Aurelian to say to Henrietta that her cells will make her immortal and also that her cells would help save countless peoples. She told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone.’

Impression:

I think Henrietta lacks was a great women, when doctor told her that they would used her cells to save countless peoples, she not be mind and she told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone.

Question:

Did someone tell her families’ truth?