The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Well what do you expect from Hopkins?” Bobbette yelled from the kitchen, where she sat watching a soap opera. “I wouldn’t even ...

for research, and an under ground shipping industry kept schools in the North supplied with black bodies from the South for anat ...

sumed a few months later using consent forms. And in the late nineties, two women sued Hopkins, claiming that its researchers ha ...

As the Lacks men talked about Hopkins and insurance, Bobbette snorted in disgust and walked to her recliner in the living room. ...

Soon after that fishing trip, at the age of seventy-one, Gey learned he had the disease he’d spent his entire life trying to fig ...

been so many years. But Mary never told a soul. George Gey died on November 8, 1970. A few months after Gey’s death, Howard Jone ...

has secured for the patient, Henrietta Lacks as HeLa, an immortality which has now reached 20 years. Will she live forever if nu ...

when Gartler presented his infamous research, and he was one of the few scientists who be- lieved it. Nelson-Rees had since been ...

La ... enjoy the fame she so richly deserves? Douglas was flooded with responses. There’s no record of readers addressing his qu ...

Lacks sat at her friend Gardenia’s dining room table. Gardenia’s brother-in-law was in town from Washington, D.C., and they’d al ...

Gardenia’s brother-in-law told Bobbette that Henrietta’s cells had been all over the news lately because they’d been causing pro ...

in entirely new ways. McKusick agreed, so he turned to one of his postdoctoral fellows, Susan Hsu, and said, “As soon as you get ...

he’d never studied science. The only kind of cell he’d heard of was the kind Zakariyya was liv- ing in out at Hagerstown. So he ...

got to come over to the house tomorrow, doctors from Hopkins coming to test everybody’s blood to see if you all got that cancer ...

Lawrence just put it in a drawer and forgot about it. The Lacks men didn’t think much about their mother’s cells or the cancer t ...

er—applied to all “subjects at risk,” meaning “any individual who may be exposed to the pos- sibility of injury, including physi ...

pictured on this page, Henrietta Lacks. The book was filled with complicated sentences explaining Henrietta’s cells by saying, “ ...

she said, “I wouldn’t mind to go back and get some more blood.” The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks The Immortal life of Henrie ...

doing five, then six full circles, as if some giant hand had reached down and spun it like a bottle. Rogers had done risky repor ...

cell-culture lab. Patenting cell lines is standard today, but it was unheard of in the fifties; re- gardless, it seems unlikely ...