Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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.

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