According to the book, Henrietta s cells were taken by DR Gey. He took her cells and gave to marry who was worked in his lab with him. They keeps it in lab to let it grows. They did a lot of research of her cells but they didn’t succeed. They was open a lab for research cells when they was graduate from college. They started to collect umbilical cord blood, cow fetuses and chicken blood for research and let cells to grow up. But they weren’t succeeded of it even though they were doing it for several years. When Marry saw Henrietta’s cells was growing, she told it to gey. Then Gey traces it was alive for several years. They were research a lot about it but they weren’t succeeded. Even though Henrietta didn’t know they were doing research with her cells.
After finished her treatments, she went back home and started doing usual family life. She was doing taking care of children’s, work at the tobacco fields, and dance after her children go to sleep. Therefore nobody knew she was sick. After two weeks she felt bad her inside. Therefore she told her cousins, she need to X-ray therapy every weekday for a month.
Author called to Roland Patella who was one of the students of Gey. She shows many reasons for get her number. Finally she found out Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah’s numbers. But she didn’t want to talk about it then she gave her brother number to author. Therefore they also didn’t talk about it. Gey show Henrietta’s cells to scientists, because it will need to search cancer. When she knew her cells will make her immortal, she felt happy, because her cells will help to save the lives of countless people.
I think she was really a kindful woman, because she felt happy to give her cells for countless people. We can’t find out any women like her.
Why they didn’t succeed to research of umbilical cord blood?
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