Henrietta+Lacks+Family

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 * The day George Gey got his hands on Lacks's cells, everything changed.

Henrietta's Dance
By [|Rebecca Skloot] || =="Henrietta Lacks's cells multiplied like nothing anyone had seen. They latched to the sides of test tubes, consumed the medium around them, and within days, the thin film of cells grew thicker and thicker. But Henrietta's tumor cells took over her body as quickly as they'd taken over test tubes. Within months, tumors appeared on almost every organ, and Henrietta moaned from her bed for the Lord to help her. The day she died, October 4, 1951, George Gey appeared on national television with a vial of Henrietta's cells. He called them HeLa cells, held them up to the camera, and said, "It is possible that, from a fundamental study such as this, we will be able to learn a way by which cancer can be completely wiped out." Gey introduced the nation to his hopes for curing cancer while Henrietta's body lay in the Hopkins morgue, her toenails shining with a fresh coat of red polish. __//And her family knew nothing of any cells//__."== //Pioneers of Discovery//
 * APRIL 2000**

//Watch the video about the Lacks family and Hela Cells//
· · · · · · · · · · · ·media type="youtube" key="rlINobLQvlg" height="315" width="560"Henrietta Lacks family: from confusion to pride.

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