Life/Family of Henrietta
Henrieta had a daughter named_
Who is Deborah Lacks?
This is a type of permission that must come directly from a patient to allow a doctor to perform procedures or use some sort of part of the patient's body__
What is informed consent?
The HeLa was crucial in developing a vaccine that is known to help eliminate a disease that has paralyzed many children__
What is polio vaccine?
HeLa cells were the first to do this action successfully outside of the human body__
What is divide continuously?
Henrieta went to this hospital for cervical cancer treatment_
What is Johns Hopkins?
For decades, The family of Henrietta was unaware of the fact that Henrietta's cells were being used. This shows a lack of this ethical value__
What is transparency?
The Researchers used HeLa in order to help with the understanding of how these viruses impact human cells (CD4 T)
What is HIV/AIDS?
It is a part of the HeLa is at the end of their chromosome and is partly the reason why the HeLa cells can divide continously__
What is telomerase?
Henrieta died on_
What is October 4, 1951
HeLa's cells made ground breaking discoveries and created million dollar companies, the family never received any of the money. This raised question upon this ethical issue__
What is exploitation?
The HeLa Cells helped researchers test how human cells are impacted by this treatment meant to kill cancer__
What is Chemotherapy?
HeLa cells have this condition where they have an abnormally large amount of chromosomes and are genetically unstable__
What is aneuploidy?
The author that published the story of Henrieta__
Who is Rebecca Skloot
During the movie, the scientists that took Henrietta's blood shared Henrietta's medical records. This violated which ethical right?__
What is privacy?
What is human genome?
Another reason that HeLa cells can divide continuously is because they do not have regular aging and death that most human cells go through. This process is known as__
What is apoptosis?
Henrieta's family did not find out about the case till this decade__
What is 1970?
In the movie, there were scenes that showed how Henrietta's race and class affected her treatment from the medical system. This raised question on this ethical right__
justice
Researchers used the HeLa cells to understand how the cancer cells avoid becoming destroyed by the immune system. The discoveries helped treatment for the immune system to be retrained to attack tumors__
What is immunotherapy?
Studied in the context of viral oncogenesis, the HeLa cells contain copies of DNA from this virus. The HeLa cell contributed to this virus's cancerous transformation__
What is Human papillomavirus (HPC)