Sunday, October 30, 2011

summary of 136-176

In 1960, scientists thought Henrietta's cells were becoming super strong. They started doing the research of mix Henrietta's cells with others. They wanted to get answers from mixed cells which are died or radiation changed. Most of cells were contaminated. The mouse cells with Henrietta's cells was the only best example. They published the result and announced that man-animal cells are alived  in lab.
 Henrietta's older sons, Lawrence and Sonny were doing well on their own. However, Henrietta's daughter, Deborah was pregnant when she was sixteen year-old; she  is a violent mother. when her child make a mistake, she used to beat him. the younger son, Joe is dropped out of school in the seventh grade and then he is in prison because he killed a person.

In 1966's, a geneticist talks to Gey that he finds a technical problem in their field. He was working on cell cloning and hybrids, mapping human genes, and using cultures to cure cancer. He also do the research for looking the new genetic markets. He found that, there was one thing that in common in his research, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-A was contained in his research. They were almost from of black Americans. Then they related to Henrietta's case, and they spent more time developing genetic tests Hela cells.
Back to the 2000s, author was waiting two hours for Sonny for getting  more information about Henrietta. She knew Lawrence was the only child of Henrietta who remember her. Lawrence said some covered things about Hopkins hospital such as test on black people, hide the truth about Henrietta and Henrietta's family know nothing about her.
In 1970-1973,Gey came up with cancer. He wanted his cells will like Henrietta's that can help advance science in the process, so he asked his surgeons to take the cells from his pancreas. However, the surgeons did not do it because he worried if they cut the cancer it would  kill Gey. After Gey recovered, he found out  that other scientists needed his help. After a while, Gey died. Before he died, he told Mary it is ok to release Henrietta's real name if someone asked. Finally, people know Henrietta Lack who provide the immortal cells

Quwstion: why Gey did not announce the real name of HELA before he died??

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