Scientists
The scientist who first grew the HeLa cell line.
Who was George Gey?
The weather event that happened at Henrietta's funeral
What was a storm?
Cells which divide rapidly and take over nearby cells.
What are cancer cells?
The name of the town that Henrietta was born in.
What is Roanoke?
Henrietta's cousin who she married
Who is David (Day) Lacks?
A French scientist who lied about creating an "immortal" chicken heart.
Who was Alexis Carrel?
The name of Henrietta's youngest child.
What is Elsie Lacks?
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
The section of Clover that the Lacks extended family lives in.
What is Lacks Town?
The cousin of Henrietta's with polio.
Who was Cousin Cootie?
The scientist who first put Skloot in contact with the Lacks family.
Who was Roland Pattillo?
The "lawyer" who offered to sue Johns Hopkins on behalf of the Lacks family
Who is Sir Lord Keenan Kester Cofield?
The process of removing a small sample of tissues or cells.
What is a biopsy?
The name of the mental hospital that Elsie was put in.
What is Crownsville?
Henrietta's cousin who would later abuse Deborah
Who was Galen?
The geneticist who took blood samples from the Lacks family without offering them informed consent.
Who was Victor McKusiek?
What is 1951?
A method of testing women for cervical cancer, created by George Papanicolaou.
What is the Pap smear?
The college where Roland Pattillo was a professor at.
What is the Morehouse School of Medicine?
Henrietta's cousin who was her confidant and would sneak out to go dancing with her.
Who was Sadie?
A scientist who "infected" healthy people with HeLa cells without properly informing them.
Who was Chester Southam?
The name of the town that Henrietta and Day moved to when they left Clover to find work at a steel mill.
What is Turner Station?
The official name for non-invasive cervical carcinomas.
What is carcinoma in situ?
The name of the hospital where Southam and Mandel injected patients with HeLa cells.
What is the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital?
A cousin of Henrietta's who grew up with her in Clover and worked the tobacco fields.
Who was Cousin Cliff?