Summary of Henrietta Lacks’ Immortal cell
According to this article we can see that who is Henrietta lacks and what she did. First we can see that Henrietta was a black tobacco farmer from southern Virginia who got cervical cancer when she was 30. And a doctor at Johns Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without telling her and sent it down the hall it scientists there who had been trying to grow tissues in culture for decades without success. And her cells never died. Henrietta’s cells were the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture. Many scientific landmarks since then have used her cells, including cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization. However, her families didn’t know about that. And this article also talk about her background, there are something information about her families on the book. Twenty-five years after Henrietta died, a scientist discovered that many cell culture thought to be from other tissue types, including breast and prostate cells, were in fact Hela cells. In the midst of that, one group of scientists tracked down Henrietta’s relatives to take some samples with hopes that they could use the family’s DNA to make a map of Henrietta’s genes so they could tell which cell cultures were Hela and which weren’t, to begin straightening out the contamination problem.
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