Henrietta's Life
Henrietta Lacks was born in this U.S. state in 1920.
What is Virginia?
Henrietta’s cells were the first human cells to do this in a lab.
What is live and grow outside the body?
The book raises concerns about using people’s tissue without this.
What is consent?
Henrietta’s daughter who was sent to a mental institution.
Who is Elsie Lacks?
What kind of cancer treatment was improved using HeLa cells?
What is Chemotherapy?
Henrietta died of this illness at age 31.
What is cervical cancer?
Her cells helped create this important vaccine in the 1950s.
What is the Polio vaccine?
The Lacks family struggled because they never received this.
What is money or compensation?
Which family member often carried Henrietta’s Bible and records?
Who is Deborah Lacks?
Skloot started this foundation to help the Lacks family.
What is the Henrietta Lacks Foundation?
What physical symptom led Henrietta to seek medical help?
What is a lump/tumor on her cervix?
HeLa cells are still used in labs today because they are this.
What is immortal?
Her cells were sent around the world under this false name.
Who is Helen Lane?
The Lacks family lived without this, despite HeLa's success.
What is health insurance or basic medical care?
What medical process did HeLa cells help test, making childbirth safer?
What is the Pap smear or HPV vaccine development?
Henrietta's full name at birth was this.
What is Loretta Pleasant?
HeLa cells were used to study how human cells respond to this in space.
What is zero gravity?
What kind of consent did Henrietta give?
What is treatment consent?
What did Deborah fear would happen if she learned too much?
What is she would get sick or be punished spiritually?
HeLa cells helped study this disease that affects the immune system.
What is HIV/AIDS?
What kind of work did Henrietta and her family do in Clover?
What is Tobacco Farming?
HeLa cells were crucial in mapping these basic human structures.
What are chromosomes?
What law now protects patient privacy?
What is HIPAA?
The Lacks family didn’t know about HeLa cells until this decade.
What is the 1970's?
What role did the book play in getting Henrietta’s name recognized in science?
What is it helped restore her identity and credited her as the source of HeLa?