https://padlet.com/barbekel000/fxshdypsxyaz Henrietta Lacks went in for the removal of her self-found tumor. What she didnt know, and never will know, is that her tumor wouold change the face of medicine forever. en-us 2016-03-21 20:04:36 UTC 2025-12-12 20:45:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/earth.jpg barbekel000 https://padlet.com/barbekel000/fxshdypsxyaz/wish/102133993 1. Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose tumor the cells came from, never knew there was anything special about her tumor cells, nor did any of the family until 24 years after her death.
2. One specific laboratory alone has used 8 billion Heal cells over the course of 26 years. Producing about 600,000,000 each week, these cells have been used for a multitude of purposes. 
3. HeLa cells are involved in over 11,000 patents and she is heavier in death than in life. Estimates suggest that well over 20 tons of Henrietta Lacks have been grown in labs, a considerable amount more than her living weight.
4. These cells reproduce so quickly and efficiently they now contaminate hundreds of experiments; in all actual fact her cells are contaminating as much as 20 percent of other, alternate cell lines.
5. A scientist accidentally poured a chemical on a HeLa cell that spread out its tangled chromosomes. Later on, scientists used this technique to determine that humans have 46 chromosomes—23 pairs—not 48, which provided the basis for making several types of genetic diagnoses.
6. It was discovered that Lacks's cancerous cells used an enzyme called telomerase to repair their DNA, allowing them, and other types of cancer cells, to function when normal cells would have died.]]> 2016-03-22 02:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/barbekel000/fxshdypsxyaz/wish/102133993