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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Henrietta Lacks Chapter 17-18

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Chapter 17
There was a long effort of research carried out using the HeLa cells that were conducted by a virologist named Chester Southam which began in 1954.
Chester continued his resesarch of cancer cells on 600 patients with cancer cells which included every gynecological surgery patient at the hospital by lying he was only testing them for cancer, The research eventually ended when a few Jewish doctors figured out the hoax.
Chapter 18
Research showed that normal cell cultures eventually died or later changed and became cancerous. When cells turned cancerous they all acted the same way and functioned differently almost contaminated.
Cell sex or somatic cell fusion HeLa cells with animals which produced hybrids which provided new branches of cell research but it did give away a negative reaction to the public.

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