Henrietta's Family
This woman is Henrietta's daughter.
Who is Deborah Lacks?
This man created the lab that HeLa cells were originally replicated and grown in.
Who is George Gey?
The hospital that Henrietta Lacks received care from.
What is Johns Hopkins?
HeLa cells are not regular cells, they are this kind of cell.
Cancer cells
Ethical principle for "do no harm".
Nonmaleficence
This man is Henrietta's husband.
David "Day" Lacks
The lab assistant who cultured HeLa cells for the first time
Mary Kubicek
This unethical study injected black men with a bacterial infection and continued for 40 years.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
The vaccine that HeLa cells were used to develop
The polio vaccine
A set of ethical standards for human experimentation produced as a result of a trial against several Nazi doctors after WWII
The Nuremberg Code
Henrietta's cousin who competed unsuccessfully with Day for her affection
Crazy Joe
This woman is nicknamed Mama
Who is Courtney Speed?
What year was the Nuremberg Code created?
1947
A device that measures lung capacity
Spirometer
Robert Bennett Bean measured this to collect bias data on intelligence.
Skull size
She helped raise Lawrence's siblings after Henrietta's death and advocated for them when she discovered they were being abused.
Bobette Lacks
The geneticist who dropped the "HeLa Bomb" when he proposed that many of the most commonly used cell cultures had been contaminated by HeLa
Stanley Gartler
The event that marks when thousands of black families traveled from the South to Turner Station to work for Bethlehem Steel
The Great Migration
HeLa cells are fused with this animal's cells to create the first ever human-animal hybrid cell.
Mouse
This false belief made it harder for black NFL players to receive payouts for CTE brain injuries.
Baseline cognitive skill
Deborah's grandson
"Little Alfred"
The geneticist at Johns Hopkins who conducted research on samples taken from Henrietta's children without informed consent to learn more about HeLa cells
Victor McKusick
John Moore sues his doctor and the Board of Regents of UCLA over this.
Property rights for his tissues
This was the rare genetic marker that taught us cells used for research were likely contaminated with HeLa cells.
G6PD-A (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-A)
Publishing personal medical records is a violation of this legislation, which was developed in 1996 to protect patients' privacy.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)