Her name is Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. He was a poor southern tobacco farmer who worked on the same land as his slave parents, but his anonymous cell peg was one of the most important tools in medicine.
The Rise and Fall of the The first immortal human cell to be cultured is still alive today, even though it has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could stack all HeLa cells that had ever grown on a scale, they would weigh more than 50 million tons, like a hundred Empire State buildings. HeLa cells are important in developing polio vaccines; reveal secrets about cancer, viruses and the effects of nuclear bombs; it helps lead to important advances such as in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and bought and sold by Henrietta Lacks is still almost unknown, buried in the unsigned Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the stained room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to the white laboratory with a freezer filled with HeLa cells; From the dying town of Henrietta, Clover, Virginia, the land where slaves live in wood, religious healing, and voodoo to eastern Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and wrestle with her family heritage, no. They learn about her immortality until more than twenty years after his death. , when investigators investigating HeLa began using their husband and children in investigations without consent. And even though the cell has launched a multibillion-dollar industry that sells human biological material, the family has never seen any profit. As Rebecca Skloot pointed out brilliantly, the Lacks family history clearly tells the past and present with the dark experimental history of African-Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battle if we control the things we have done over the decade. To reveal this story, Rebecca is trapped in the lives of the Lacks family, especially Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah, who is devastated by knowing her mother’s cells. He was filled with questions: did the researchers clone his mother? Does it hurt when scientists infect your cells with viruses and shoot them into space? What happened to your sister, Elsie, who died in a mental hospital at the age of fifteen? And if the mother is very important in medicine, why can’t the child have health insurance? Intimate in emotion, shocking in scope and impossible to extinguish, Henrietta Black’s eternal life captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as human consequences..
