What do you think the implications were when the world discovered in 1976 that one of the most important tools in medicine came from a black woman? What would be a similar […]

Michael Rogers, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, publishes a story about Henrietta and her family.  This is the first time the mainstream media reports about Henrietta and her family, and that […]

Chapter 18 explains how HeLa cells positively and negatively impacted medical and scientific research in the 1960s. The chapter also describes the advantages and disadvantages of fusing HeLa cells with animal cells […]

I finished this book a while back and was telling my 17-year-old son about it. It started a good half-hour debate on the power of education. In your opinion, what parts of […]

Chapter 17 explains the immoral research that doctors were performing on uninformed patients using HeLa cells. The chapter describes why the National Institutes of Health (NIH) determined that medical research involving human […]

Chapter 13 describes how Henrietta’s cells spread from Dr. Gey’s lab to the global science community, how Henrietta’s cells were used in the world’s first cell production factory, and how HeLa allowed […]