Nicole Caswell November 10‚ 2012 Advancement of Medical Research from HeLa Cells HeLa simply stands for Henrietta Lacks‚ a young mother in the 1951 who went to the doctor complaining of vaginal bleeding and discovered she had cervical cancer. Henrietta’s cells were taken for a biopsy and were found to be like nothing ever seen before; her cells were immortal. Her cancer cells double every 20 to 24 hours and have lived on for the past 60 years. Since HeLa cells were created‚ our world of modern
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Henrietta’s Cells. It is unfortunate that the Lacks family did not know that research was being done on Henrietta’s cells‚ which made the family feel like they were betrayed by doctors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital‚ but it was a common practice of doctors in the 1950s and consent was not required for research as it is today. Also‚ it is unfair that Samuel Reader and Monroe Vincent‚ the founders of Microbiological associates‚ a cell distribution company‚ made millions off of selling HeLa cells. However
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HeLa Cells are Important to Science Henrietta Lacks‚ a poor black woman in the 1950’s‚ unknowingly had samples taken from her cervical cancer specimen and changed science from that point on. Due to the continuous self-reproduction of the cells‚ HeLa cells are the most important cell line ever discovered by scientists to date! Popsci.com gave five reasons of why HeLa cells are so important to society. Popsci.com explained‚ “1. Before HeLa cells‚ scientists spent more time trying to keep cells alive
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks‚ but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors‚ yet her cells- taken without knowledge- become one of the most important tools in medicine (Rebecca Skloot). According to the scientists who have been growing HeLa for countless experiments‚ if you could pile HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale‚ they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons- as much as Empire State Buildings (The NY Times). Long
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for diseases. She is the contributing factor to most of the discoveries made‚ In regards to health and research. She is Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta unfortunately had cervical cancer and upon going to the doctors in the 1950’s‚ cells from her tumor were sent for research without her consent; and unfortunately the credit/rights that her and her family deserves have been thrown in the air. Medical procedures of the 1950s and 60s caused people to question if what was being done was moral or ethical for
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Medical Advancements Due to Technology There has been much advancement in the medical field due to the advancement in technology. These advancements could allow humans to not only live a longer life but also a life with healthier years. So the question is can society take to the idea of not only living a longer but also to the process of living a longer life? In this paper‚ I will be talking about the medical advancements we have thanks to the advancements in technology and what these medical advancements
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To what extent did medical advancements during world war two impact the lives of soldiers? One may argue that one of the most helpful drugs during word war two‚ penicillin‚ was discovered in 1960‚ prior to world war two. Although penicillin wasn’t discovered during world war two‚ it was improved on many levels during the time such as production on an industrial scale‚ it became much more readily available‚ and by 1945 it was 20 times stronger than the 1939 version of penicillin. Therefore‚ even
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Hopkins Hospital. Cells taken from her during that exam were used – without her knowledge – to develop the first immortal cell line. The cells‚ called HeLa‚ became one of the most important tools in medical research‚ vital for developing the polio vaccine‚ cloning‚ gene mapping‚ and more‚ but Henrietta Lacks‚ the person who was the source of these cells‚ was virtually unknown‚ and her family was never informed about what had been achieved using her cells. Although their mother’s cells have been bought
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The HeLa cells were discovered in 1951 from Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks‚ a poor 30-year old mother‚ was diagnosed with Epidermiod carcinoma of the cervix stage 1. George Gey‚ a doctor who worked for Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore‚ MD‚ and also someone who was attempting to produce immortal human cells‚ took a sample of the tumor and later announced to a large television audience that they were “like no other cells." As the cells gained more recognition‚ Dr. Gey named them "HeLa" cells in
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Sample Essay 2 Harvard‚ Current affairs/family illness: Medicine The Key to Medical Advancement Throughout the twentieth century‚ virtually every aspect of modern medicine has reaped the rewards of technological advancements. Society will be forever indebted to those pioneers who conceived the vast array of preventions‚ treatments‚ and cures that are readily available to mankind today. Apparently‚ the imaginations of these pioneers know no boundaries‚ for every day we are informed of progress in
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