Sarah Zielinski tried to tell us how Henrietta's cells were useful for Scientist to determine how cells works and how they can conquer diseases. She showed us a short background of who Henrietta Lacks was and why her cells were so important. Also, how Rebecca got interested in the story and how she won the trust of Henrietta's family. Where I liked was the last paragraph. She urge people not to have negative idea about the tissue culture because many medicines depend on tissue culture.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
66-92
The writer talked about how she was able to find her way to Turner Station, where Henrietta had lived when she was alive. Her aim was to see if she could get in-touch with David Sony, Lack's Junior, but it is unfortunate. Later, she get in touch with the Reverend in Turner station, who connected her to Courtney speed and people who were going to lunch a museum in honor of Henrietta. In short, she got some information in the CNN documentary video she watched, before she left turner station.
Meanwhile, Courtney had promised Skloot that she would tell her whatever she knows about Henrietta once she has taken permission from Henrietta family.
When Skloot reach Clover, she met Cootie, Henritta's cousin, who was once Henrietta's baby. Henrietta used to take care of cootie when his polio got bad. Skloot explained all what Cootie told her about the spirit in Lacks Town. How the spirit caused disease into human body. In short, she said Cootie wasn't sure if the spirit got Henrietta or Doctor did it.
On October 4, 1951 Henrietta died around the mid-night. Before she died, she gone through lots of pains; the cancer had spread all over her body to extend that her system couldn't even performed any operation. After her death, Gey was able to get in touch again with Henrietta's body through Day permission. If he could discovered something different to the cells he had been growing.
I like the spirit that Skloot got. The spirit of courage; the spirit of determination. Despite all what she faced in order to get in touch with the Lacks family, and the discouragement of those who had tried to write something about Henrietta, she still continnue till she achieved her aims.
Meanwhile, Courtney had promised Skloot that she would tell her whatever she knows about Henrietta once she has taken permission from Henrietta family.
When Skloot reach Clover, she met Cootie, Henritta's cousin, who was once Henrietta's baby. Henrietta used to take care of cootie when his polio got bad. Skloot explained all what Cootie told her about the spirit in Lacks Town. How the spirit caused disease into human body. In short, she said Cootie wasn't sure if the spirit got Henrietta or Doctor did it.
On October 4, 1951 Henrietta died around the mid-night. Before she died, she gone through lots of pains; the cancer had spread all over her body to extend that her system couldn't even performed any operation. After her death, Gey was able to get in touch again with Henrietta's body through Day permission. If he could discovered something different to the cells he had been growing.
I like the spirit that Skloot got. The spirit of courage; the spirit of determination. Despite all what she faced in order to get in touch with the Lacks family, and the discouragement of those who had tried to write something about Henrietta, she still continnue till she achieved her aims.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Comment on group post
If you don't treat tumor on time, the tumor can become malignant and kill the person. Yes, as TeLinde believes in chapter three of the book. He belived that carcinoma in situ was simply an early stage of invasive carcinoma. so, it should be treated on aggressively and in time in order not to be complicated. Next time, i think our group we need to give the major fact and with details.
In Clase Quiz 1-6
1.) The Tuskegee Institute open the first HeLa factory in 1952 for supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit. The company was named Microbiological Associates.
2.) Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920
3.) George Gey successfully culture first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix in 1951. And the reason he named the cells "HeLa" was for identificatiion. By using her first two letters of her last and first name.
4.) HeLa cells was used by Scientists in 1952 to developed polio vaccine.
5.) Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer at Hopkins Hospital. The Hospital was founded in 1889.
6.) HeLa cells became the first cells ever cloned in 1953.
2.) Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920
3.) George Gey successfully culture first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix in 1951. And the reason he named the cells "HeLa" was for identificatiion. By using her first two letters of her last and first name.
4.) HeLa cells was used by Scientists in 1952 to developed polio vaccine.
5.) Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer at Hopkins Hospital. The Hospital was founded in 1889.
6.) HeLa cells became the first cells ever cloned in 1953.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Chapter 4-8 (page 34-66)
Chap 4-5 : The name "HeLa" was derived from Henrietta Lacks by Mary Kubicek, a fresh graduate of Physiology, who was working as an assistant in George Gey's Laboratory. She used the name "HeLa" as a label for Henrietta Lacks cells she grew. George Gey was a Biologist who specialized in Culture. Gey and many researchers had been trying for years to develop a perfect cell culture, searching for liquid to get the perfect balance. Sometimes either Mary or Margret ( Gey's wife) would ran to collect umbilical cord at Hopkins Maternity Ward.
According to Skloot, the biggest problem facing cell culture at that time was contamination. She said, Bacteria and a host of other micro-organisms could find their way into cultures from people's unwashed hand, their breath, and dust particles floating through the air, and destroy them. But due to Margret profession as a Surgical Nurse, Gey Lab was able to grow cells. Because she taught Gey and his workers including Scientists who came study in the lab how to keep culture sterile.
When Henrietta lacks cells were brought into Gey Lab, they accumulated in intensity, doubling their numbers everyday as long as they had food and warmth, Henrietta's cancer cells seemed unstoppable said by Skloot.
Meanwhile, Henrietta didn't aware about her cells growing in laboratory. After she left the hospital, she went back home performed her daily route until she was seeing some signs and symptoms after some weeks of her X-ray Therapy.
Chap 6 : Skloot talked about how she was able to get in touch with Henrietta's daughter(Deborah) She was so excited for Deborah's reaction when she told her she wanted to write a book about her mother and she was able to receive as much as possible information from the 1920s to the 1990s. Also, she explained what one the Gey's student Roland Pattillo, a Professor of Gynecology said; how researchers had deceived blacks in order to study how syphilis killed from infection to death.
Chap 7: After Henrietta radiation Therapy, George Gey began to broadcast his first Immortal cells which had been growing in his lab. Explaining that his lab is using those cells to find a way to stop cancer. Gey began to ship Henrietta cells to different nations as they were ordered by many scientists across the world. upon the spread of Henrietta cells and rapid of new research, there were no news of how it might help stop cancer
Chap 8: Skloot talked about the agony and pains Henrietta went through at the Hopkins before she died. How Doctors were performing different kinds of treatments, and the experiments that George Gey carried out on the second specimen he collected. She said that black people never questioned white professional judgement in those days, they accept whatever they said because they knew that doctors know the best.
According to Skloot, there was no record that Gey ever visited Henrietta in the hospital or said anything about her cells except Laure Aurelian, a microbiologist who was Gey's colleague at Hopkins. This cells culture started on January 17, 1912 when Alexis Carrel, a fresh surgeon at Rockefeller Institute grew his Immortal chicken heart. Scientist had been trying ti grow living cells for many years.
According to Skloot, the biggest problem facing cell culture at that time was contamination. She said, Bacteria and a host of other micro-organisms could find their way into cultures from people's unwashed hand, their breath, and dust particles floating through the air, and destroy them. But due to Margret profession as a Surgical Nurse, Gey Lab was able to grow cells. Because she taught Gey and his workers including Scientists who came study in the lab how to keep culture sterile.
When Henrietta lacks cells were brought into Gey Lab, they accumulated in intensity, doubling their numbers everyday as long as they had food and warmth, Henrietta's cancer cells seemed unstoppable said by Skloot.
Meanwhile, Henrietta didn't aware about her cells growing in laboratory. After she left the hospital, she went back home performed her daily route until she was seeing some signs and symptoms after some weeks of her X-ray Therapy.
Chap 6 : Skloot talked about how she was able to get in touch with Henrietta's daughter(Deborah) She was so excited for Deborah's reaction when she told her she wanted to write a book about her mother and she was able to receive as much as possible information from the 1920s to the 1990s. Also, she explained what one the Gey's student Roland Pattillo, a Professor of Gynecology said; how researchers had deceived blacks in order to study how syphilis killed from infection to death.
Chap 7: After Henrietta radiation Therapy, George Gey began to broadcast his first Immortal cells which had been growing in his lab. Explaining that his lab is using those cells to find a way to stop cancer. Gey began to ship Henrietta cells to different nations as they were ordered by many scientists across the world. upon the spread of Henrietta cells and rapid of new research, there were no news of how it might help stop cancer
Chap 8: Skloot talked about the agony and pains Henrietta went through at the Hopkins before she died. How Doctors were performing different kinds of treatments, and the experiments that George Gey carried out on the second specimen he collected. She said that black people never questioned white professional judgement in those days, they accept whatever they said because they knew that doctors know the best.
According to Skloot, there was no record that Gey ever visited Henrietta in the hospital or said anything about her cells except Laure Aurelian, a microbiologist who was Gey's colleague at Hopkins. This cells culture started on January 17, 1912 when Alexis Carrel, a fresh surgeon at Rockefeller Institute grew his Immortal chicken heart. Scientist had been trying ti grow living cells for many years.
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