Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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.

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