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Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection: Crash Course Statistics #12

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Despite HeLa's incredible abilities, one issue that persisted for a long time was Henrietta's family's consent with the research and distribution of HeLa, with the family not even knowing for decades. Despite this moral issue, HeLa is still around today and is researched for many important uses.

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HeLa was able to replicate the polio virus and create a vaccine. HeLa also helped to study all sorts of diseases like measles, mumps, HIV, and ebola. It also helped us discover that cervical cancer, the cancer that killed Henrietta Lacks, was caused by a virus called HPV.

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The tumor in question was from one Henrietta Lacks, a woman who was born in Virginia on a tobacco farm and lived with her husband and five children, who unfortunately died of cervical cancer months after her cells were harvested. Her tumor was unlike others in that it looked purple and jelly-like, and was quickly getting bigger and bigger. This was due to the fact that when the cells died, the cell copied causing there to be generations of the cell that are still around today.

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HeLa are lab-grown cells that are able to continually grow and grow without dying out. While human cells have been grown in labs to see how they function, understand how diseases develop, and test treatments with harming new patients, the biggest problem was that the cells they used quickly died about before they could be used. That was, until 1951, when George Gey was given a tumor that changed the course of cell research.