Hel The First Immortal Human Cells

Henrietta Lacks was feeling sick 1952, she visited john Hopkins hospital for medical test. Doctors found out that she was suffering from cervical cancer. At that time a doctor name George Gey was working at the hospital, him and his colleagues were working in the lab trying to grow the first immortal human cell that could live outside the body and multiplies over time but they have been failing for years. While Henrietta was at the hospital some of her cells were taken without a consent and her tissue was going to change things when Mary, Gey assistant found out that Henrietta cell multiplied and she named it HeLa. The name HeLa comes from the first two initial of Henrietta Lacks first and last name. HeLa became a mass production around the world, getting shared by and with many researchers and scientist. HeLa has also been sold for a good amount of money but her family benefits none from it. The lacks family should receive money for the use of HeLa without the family consent.

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In 1953 news magazines were working on naming the woman behind the HeLa cell. News magazines were giving credits to the wrong person, some would say her name was Henrietta lakes. Roland H. Berg, a press officer at the NFIP sent Gey a letter telling him that he was going to write an article for a public magazines, Gey replied " we have agreed to allow the material to be presented but the name must be hold onto" Gey did not release Henrietta real name because he did not want the news people to find out about the real woman behind the cell, therefore he kept her name a secret and gave a wrong name to the news. Gey knew where the cells came from, but he hide all the information 's about it. The family deserves money because of Gey gave false information about HeLa by hiding the real identity of the HeLa cells.