All about Henrietta
True or false? Was there an obituary for Henrietta Lacks?
False
Who created The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP)?
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
How many black scientists and technicians built the factory at Tuskegee?
six black scientists and technicians
Why did Day finally agree to sign the autopsy permission form?
They said they wanted to run tests that might help his children someday.
how tubes of cells died when they shipped them around the world.
only one tube died
What are some type of viruses were the HeLa cells were exposed to?
herpes, measles, mumps, fowl pox, equine encephalitis
What was the official cause of Henrietta's death?
Terminal Uremia
What was the reason for HeLa factory opening?
to help stop polio
What were HeLa cells the first cell to do?
clone each other/tell us how many chromosomes we have/cure diseases
What is HeLa cells compared to?
HeLa was compared to a workhorse:it was hardly, it was inexpensive, and it was everywhere
About how many HeLa cells were produced every week?
6 trillion cells each week/twenty thousand tubes of HeLa.
What did they expose Henrietta's cells to determine how nuclear bombs destroyed cells?
massive doses radiation
Why did people still want to buy HeLa cells even though they were cancerous?
they stilled shared basic characterics as normal cells, they produced protien and communicated with one another, they divided and generated engery, they were still good for research
Where was the first center/factory built for the cells?
Tuskegee
What did they discover about down syndrome people from HeLa cells?
that they have an extra chromosome