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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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- I've tried to imagine how she'd feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization.†
Chpt Prol.polio = viral disease that causes muscle paralysis
- But they don't never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine.†
Chpt Deb. *
- His real name was Hector Henry—people started calling him Cootie when he got polio decades earlier; he was never sure why.†
Chpt 1.10
- The polio had left him partially paralyzed in his neck and arms, with nerve damage that caused constant pain.†
Chpt 1.10
- "She used to take care of me when my polio got bad," he told me.†
Chpt 1.10
- It was built for one reason: to help stop polio.†
Chpt 2.13
- By the end of 1951 the world was in the midst of the biggest polio epidemic in history.†
Chpt 2.13
- In February 1952, Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh announced that he'd developed the world's first polio vaccine, but he couldn't begin offering it to children until he'd tested it on a large scale to prove it was safe and effective.†
Chpt 2.13
- The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP)—a charity created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who'd himself been paralyzed by polio—began organizing the largest field trial ever conducted to test the polio vaccine.†
Chpt 2.13
- The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP)—a charity created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who'd himself been paralyzed by polio—began organizing the largest field trial ever conducted to test the polio vaccine.†
Chpt 2.13
- When the NFIP heard the news that HeLa was susceptible to polio virus and could grow in large quantities for little money, it immediately contracted William Scherer to oversee development of a HeLa Distribution Center at the Tuskegee Institute, one of the most prestigious black universities in the country.†
Chpt 2.13
- Others shipped them on a rigid schedule to researchers at twenty-three polio-testing centers around the country.†
Chpt 2.13
- Soon the New York Times would run pictures of black women hunched over microscopes examining cells, black hands holding vials of HeLa, and this headline: UNIT AT TUSKEGEE HELPS POLIO FIGHT Corps of Negro Scientists Has Key Role in Evaluating of Dr. Salk's Vaccine HELA CELLS ARE GROWN Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white.†
Chpt 2.13
- At first the Tuskegee Center supplied HeLa cells only to polio testing labs.†
Chpt 2.13
- He eventually tracked some down in the lab of William Scherer, who'd used some of the original HeLa sample in their polio research.†
Chpt 2.18
- From her cells came all these different creations—medical miracles like polio vaccines, some cure for cancer and other things, even AIDS.†
Chpt 2.21
- I didn't know about that, but the other day President Clinton said the polio vaccine is one of the most important things that happened in the twentieth century, and her cells involved with that too.†
Chpt 2.21
- Instead he told her about Henrietta's cells being used for the polio vaccine and genetic research; he said they'd gone up in early space missions and been used in atomic bomb testing.†
Chpt 3.23
Definitions:
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(1)
(polio) a viral disease that can cause paralysis and sometimes death
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)