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Bobette learned about HeLa while visiting her friend Gardenia. Gardenia's brother-in-law was in town and informed her that he and many others were working with Henrietta's cells in their laboratories.

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Hsu appeared to believe that the Lackses knew everything about Henrietta's cells and how they were handled. Hsu called Day and requested that blood be drawn. She had not been instructed to explain anything to them. Day subsequently informs Skloot that Hsu claimed that the blood was taken for a "cancer test" to determine if the children had cancer like their mother.

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Most people believe that white scientists mistreated the body of Henrietta Lacks, a black lady. The University was established in 1876 and was the country's first research institution. It was named after Johns Hopkins, a benefactor. He gave $7 million (about $112 million today) to boost education and public health. The Johns Hopkins Hospital was an outlier, offering the same level of care to black and white patients. However, at the period of Henrietta Lacks and for many years afterwards, black patients who were treated in separated facilities.

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Joe has always fought because of his trauma. Everyone felt he was crazy, so he was given the nickname "Crazy Joe," and his family sent him to the military because they hoped he could improve. When he returned, he murdered a man named Ivy who had harassed him. Joe's family assisted him in fleeing back to Clover, but his aggressive, alcoholic behavior persisted. Joe pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Joe struggled in prison until he began reading the Koran and embraced islam, changing his name to Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman. Deborah, on the other hand, was going on with her life and eventually married Alfred, the father of her child. He would beat her when high on drugs, so she struck back by stabbing him in the chest with a knife as a warning. Deborah was persuaded by Bobbette that leaving the house was preferable to killing Alfred directly.

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Chapter 19 - "The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now"

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Chapter 19 - "The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now"

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Chester Southam, a virologist, was concerned in the 1950s that contact with HeLa cells would infect researchers with cancer. To put this to the test, he inserted HeLa cells into the arms of cancer patients while claiming to be conducting an immune system test. On the patients' arms, lumps formed.

In 1963, he organized for similar experiments to be continued at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn. Three Jewish doctors, however, refused to participate, contrasting this research to the trials of Nazi doctors at Nuremberg.

Despite the fact that several doctors testified in support of Southam and Mandel, the hospital’s director of medicine, the Board of Regents called for more explicit ethical rules for research. Southam and Mandel were sentenced to one year of probation.

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Chapter 17: Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable

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Chapter 17: Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable

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Before she could work on Henrietta's cells, Mary had to go through a series of protocols to assure the sterility of the environment.

When she finally placed the cells into their respective tubes, she christened the specimen "HeLa" using the lab's naming protocol: the first two letters of the subject's first and last names.

He had immortal, rapidly proliferating human cells. And now his coworkers wanted some as well. Gey has no issues with sharing.

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Her children went through a lot after Henrietta died. Lawrence was drafted at the age of sixteen, and his three siblings remained with Ethel and Galen. For every minor transgression, the children would be beaten or starved until a few hours later. Ethel tortured Joe so severely that it damaged him emotionally, while Deborah was sexually abused by her uncle, whom she considered a father figure. The good news was that Lawrence's girlfriend, Bobbette, provided her with wise advice.

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Carrel, as a eugenicist and a French surgeon, thought that cell culture and scientific advancement should be directed toward benefiting and extending the lives of white people.

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Chapter 7: The Death and Life of Cell Culture

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Chapter 7: The Death and Life of Cell Culture

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The United States Public Health Service organized the Tuskegee Study, which included blood tests, spinal taps, and autopsy on the subjects.

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Henrietta is beautiful, vivacious, fearless, and devoted to her children

she is married to Day Lacks and is the mother of Deborah, Elsie, Lawrence, Sonny, and Joe

also known among her family for keeping her nails painted a bright red

Henrietta's cells were the first immortal human cells ever grown in

for decades, Henrietta never knew doctors took her cells ― and neither did her family

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Chapter 5: "Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside"

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Chapter 5: "Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside"

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TeLinde intended to show that women with carcinoma in situ, like invasive cancer patients, need vigorous treatment.

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At the age of twenty-one, Henrietta stared through the train window at the rolling hills and wide-open bodies of water for the first time, heading towards a new life." (pg. 26)

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"The first time Crazy Joe tried to kill himself over Henrietta, he ran circles around her in the middle of winter while she was on her way home from school." (pg. 23)

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We've learnt a lot about Henrietta's family history, which I found fascinating. I had no idea that cousins marrying cousins was a typical thing back then! Crazy Joe, one of her cousins, intended to take his life because of Henrietta. I'm curious how he felt when he learned she had children with Day...

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This entire chapter was unsettling to listen to. Deborah, Henrietta's daughter, began by talking about her mother. Then there was the way she found out about her, which made me feel a certain way.

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"Jones cut a small sample and sent it to the pathology lab down the hall for a diagnosis. Then he told Henrietta to go home." (pg. 17)

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"I really don't know how she did all that, but I guess I'm glad she did, cause that mean she helpin lots of people. I think she would like that." (pg. 9)