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	Henrietta Lacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henrietta Lacks (August 18, 1920 – October 4, 1951) was the involuntary donor of cells from her cancerous tumor, which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create an immortal cell line for medical research.
		In 1943 Henrietta moved to the Turners Station neighborhood of Dundalk, Maryland, the youngest and the largest of the historically African American communities in Baltimore County.
		On February 1, 1951, Henrietta went to Johns Hopkins Hospital because of a vaginal discharge, and was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henrietta_Lacks (1156 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Filmmaker immortalizes 'immortal' cells
		Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951, is the subject of Gilbert's documentary.
		Neither Henrietta nor the Lacks family gave permission for her cells to be used for research; in fact, the family didn't learn about the proliferation of HeLa cells until the early 1970s.
		In February 1951, just after Henrietta's first diagnostic visit to Johns Hopkins, some of her tumor cells were sent to the lab of George and Margaret Gey, two Johns Hopkins researchers who had been searching for a line of human cells that would live indefinitely outside the body.
	www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/07.19/04-filmmaker.html (1322 words)

	virtual ifu - open space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Henrietta was taken back down south to be buried in an unmarked grave alongside the plantation her great-grandfather had owned.
		Henrietta Lack’s cells were so powerful that if just one cell dropped on to another petrie dish or if one was blown across the laboratory they would grow so aggressively that the host was smothered, turning normal cells cancerous.
		As in the case of Henrietta Lacks, her husband and her children were never asked and being told about the extensive use of the tissue.
	www.vifu.de /new/os/1509_schneider.html (6329 words)

	Beyond her years
		However, while Lacks' cells are famous world wide as HeLa cells, Lacks has remained anonymous - she is even misnamed Helen Lane or Larson in the few text books in which she is referred to by name.
		Lacks' husband, David Lacks Sr., maintains that in 1951, the only procedure for which he gave permission was an autopsy.
		In addition, it was revealed in 1971 that Lacks died due to a misdiagnosis of the specific type of cancer from which she suffered.
	www.jhu.edu /~newslett/02-21-97/Features/Beyond_her_years.html (536 words)

	Johns Hopkins Magazine -- April 2000
		They don't know that soon after Henrietta's death in 1951, Gey and his colleagues used her cells to grow the polio virus that was ravaging children throughout the world.
		Henrietta Lacks rests today in an unmarked grave in the cemetery across the street from her family's tobacco farm in Virginia.
		This story starts with Henrietta and the origin of the HeLa cells: They were not from Helen Lane or Helen Larson, as many publications have mistakenly reported, they were from Henrietta Lacks, wife of David, mother of five.
	www.jhu.edu /~jhumag/0400web/01.html (2663 words)

	University of Pittsburgh: Pitt Magazine
		Surrounded by the low rumble of the churning drum, Henrietta Lacks’ cells latched onto the roller-tube walls, consumed the medium around them, and within days of being placed in culture, the sheet of cells grew thicker than any the Geys had seen.
		Henrietta died eight months after her first visit to Hopkins, her cells still multiplying in the lab at an unheard-of rate.
		Within two years of her death, samples of Henrietta’s cells were packaged in ice and cardboard, with careful instructions for feeding and handling, and shipped around the world.
	www.umc.pitt.edu /pittmag/mar2001/culture.html (2553 words)

	Restaurant Review: Henrietta...s Breakfast Food Not Worth the Price - The Tech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This sentiment is echoed by Henrietta’s dinner patrons, who have created such a demand for the complimentary cranberry bread that it is now sold separately in the front marketplace.
		Henrietta’s service was acceptable, but certainly not remarkable.
		Overall, Henrietta’s is a good choice for taking parents or out-of-town guests out for breakfast or brunch, but not great for a group of friends looking for a easy way to fill up.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V126/N6/6Henrietta.html (851 words)

	snarkout: of mice and men (and chicken hearts)
		Lacks is at something of an advantage, however, having died in 1951.
		Henrietta Lacks, an African-American housewife living in Baltimore, was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in February, 1951.
		And they may not get even that; the Lacks family was completely unaware that Henrietta had gone on to become possibly the most important non-scientist in the history of cancer research.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2003/06/10 (836 words)

	Expiration Date
		In 1951 a physician removed cells from the cervix of Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old fl woman from Baltimore, and sent the cells to a lab to determine if they were malignant.
		Henrietta Lacks' physician provided George and Margaret Gey of Johns Hopkins University with a sample of these cervical cancer cells.
		The sample of Henrietta Lacks' cells was code-named HeLa, for the first two letters of her first and last name.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/animals/dying_for_a_steak.htm (2880 words)

	The DNA Files - Transgenics Scenario
		Henrietta Lacks, a thirty-one-year-old fl woman from Baltimore, Maryland, was diagnosed with a particularly virulent form of cervical cancer in 1951.
		Henrietta Lacks herself was probably never asked if she wished to donate her cells to science or informed that her biopsy had been cultured.
		It was not until the 1970s that her husband and four children found out about the contribution she had made to medicine and the biotechnology industry.
	www.dnafiles.org /interact/transgenics/a.html (205 words)

	The Meaning of Death
		To worsen the dilemma, with the advances of the modern Biology, Henrietta Lacks can be cloned from a single of her cells with undamaged DNA.
		If somebody clones to Henrietta Lacks in the future, then the person Henrietta would emerge from death because the genetic copy would be the own mind and the body of Henrietta...
		Plausibly, her personality would be different, but the biological person would be almost identical to the original Henrietta, with the same biological aptitudes, the same genetic tendencies, the same organic requirements and the same cognitive capabilities, unless the scientists modify her genetic code before cloning it.
	www.biocab.org /Biological_Death.html (1895 words)

	Upcoming Book: Henrietta Lacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1951, doctors took a small tissue sample from a woman named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent.
		A scientist put that sample into a test tube, and though Henrietta died a few months later, her cells are still alive today.
		Henrietta's Dance: Award winning story of Henrietta Lacks and the origin of the HeLa cell line,
	www.nasw.org /users/skloot/page5.html (265 words)

	Amazon.com: Henrietta and the Golden Eggs: Books: Hanna Johansen,Kathi Bhend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Henrietta lives in a crowded chicken house where "the air stank of chicken droppings and fortified chicken feed." Despite the hopelessness and the crowded conditions, she has a dream--to one day lay a golden egg.
		The other chickens ridicule little Henrietta, but when she successfully pecks a hole in the wall of the chicken house, all three thousand three hundred and thirty-three are quick to join her in the wild outdoors.
		When Henrietta first scratches a hole in the chicken coop wall we see a delightful shot of a frog climbing sturdy blades of grass.
	www.amazon.com /Henrietta-Golden-Eggs-Hanna-Johansen/dp/1567922104 (1449 words)

	Helacyton gartleri - Disenchanted Dictionary
		There is, however, one human being who is biologically immortal on a technicality, and her name is Henrietta Lacks.
		After her diagnosis and before attempts to treat the disease with radium, another sample from the tumor was sent to George Gey, who was the head of tissue culture research at Hopkins.
		Gey discovered that the cells from Henrietta's tumor would not only survive and multiply outside of her body, but they didn't age either.
	www.disenchanted.com /dis/lookup.html?node=1860 (677 words)

	Damn Interesting » Unintentional, Unwitting Heroine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Henrietta Lacks doesn't know it, but she is a leading contributor to the sciences of aging and cancer.
		When Mrs Lacks was hospitalized for her illness, the cancer cells were harvested and cultured–this is normal for her treatment.
		Unfortunately for Henrietta Lacks they behaved the same way in her body, and she died very quickly (I believe 3 weeks, but don't have the documentation to back up my memory) after her diagnosis.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=364 (1102 words)

	The Scientist : 'HeLa' Herself (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born in 1920 in the heart of southern Virginia's tobacco-growing region, Henrietta Pleasant grew up in Halifax County and married her teenage sweetheart, David Lacks, in 1935.
		Henrietta joined him there in 1943, where they raised their family of three boys and two girls.
		Lacks went home to Clover, Virginia, to be buried, but her immortal cells went around the world.
	www.the-scientist.com /2006/7/1/22/1 (1053 words)

	LRB \| Anne Enright : What's left of Henrietta Lacks? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Henrietta's cells were the first human culture to survive beyond the 50th generation and they are still growing: 'Although Henrietta is dead her cells live on in research labs around the world!
		Henrietta's cells were the first 'piece of human life' ('das erste Stuck menschliches Leben') in space.
		Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920 in Clover, Virginia.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v22/n08/enri01_.html (3900 words)

	No Longer Human - - science news articles online technology magazine articles No Longer Human (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lacks, a 30-year-old mother of four from Baltimore, had one of the most aggressive cervical cancers her doctors had ever seen, and the cells culled from her tumor grew avidly, doubling their number each day.
		Soon Henrietta Lacks’s cells were traveling from lab to lab, either deliberately sent--many cancer researchers had taken to using them in their experiments--or as an unseen contaminant tagging along in another cell line.
		When Henrietta Lacks’s cells first became cancerous, they also acquired the ability to survive indefinitely in a culture medium; that massive genetic transformation made them substantially different from ordinary human cells, and after four decades of evolution they have become more different still.
	www.discover.com /issues/dec-92/departments/nolongerhuman171 (1049 words)

	The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
		I don't know where I heard of her first: a woman whose cells are bred in culture dishes in labs all over the world; a woman whose cells were so prolific that there is more of her now, in terms of biomass, then there ever was when she was alive.
		Lacks' family should be compensated for their mother's cells.
		Lack nor her progeny actually contributed to the development of the cell line.
	technocrat.net /d/2006/3/28/1708 (626 words)

	::THE ANARCHY CELL LINE::
		Henrietta's cells were the very first human cancer cell line to be established in a laboratory, and is still to this day, one of the most widely used human cell line in biological research in the lab.
		Although HeLa cells are somewhat disembodied, they still literally live on as an extension of her and yet, Henrietta’s Family have no legal or personal right to her cells.
		The Anarchy cell line was produced as dialogue artifice regarding issues of tissue ownership, lab techniques, tissue patent/copyrighting, the aesthetics of the inner body and the science and social/human connection (or lack of?) in the petri dish, the biological representation of women and finally, the story of Henrietta Lacks.
	members.westnet.com.au /moth/t_art/antext.htm (812 words)

	African American Registry: The HeLa Cell, a biological first for African America!
		Lacks were circulated (without her knowledge or permission) by George Gey.
		Some researchers have argued that these cells are a separate species, because they reproduce and spread on their own; in 1991 it was named and described as Helacyton gartleri.
		But Lacks will live forever in laboratories and research centers worldwide that use her unique, immortal cells for medical research.
	aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2655/... (402 words)

	Slice of Scifi - Science Fiction TV & Movie News, Interviews & more » SCI-FI to SCI-FACT: ...
		Youngest son David Lacks holds a photo of a portrait done of his parents, shortly before his mother died.
		Henrietta’s cells were, and still are, some of the strongest cells known to science–they reproduce an entire generation every 24 hours.
		I don’t think it was much of an ethical lapse for someone to take a tissue sample from this woman before physicians dumped radioactive material all over the inside of her body.
	www.sliceofscifi.com /2005/12/23/sci-fi-to-sci-fact-henriettas-story (2907 words)

	Damn Data ¦ The Undeath of Henrietta Lacks \| Cabinet of Wonders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I first read of the strange fate of Henrietta Lacks in the early 1980s, in one of Lyall Watson's books (possibly Supernature, but memory fails).
		Henrietta Lacks died in 1951, effectively giving birth to Helacyton gartleri, the cancer that killed her.
		In the end, it all becomes a morass of gender, race and medical politics that is hard to unravel, and somewhere Henrietta Lacks gets lost in the shuffle.
	www.wunderkabinett.co.uk /damndata/index.php?/archives/327-The-Undeath-of-Henrietta-Lacks.html (486 words)

	Comments on 20694 \| MetaFilter
		Henrietta Lacks in the Congressional Record (mentioned in the cited LRB article).
		I found this fascinating about her cell samples; Henrietta's cells were, and still are, some of the strongest cells known to science--they reproduce an entire generation every 24 hours.
		The cells of Henrietta Lacks are unusual, because they appear to lack any natural capacity for apoptosis, the technical term for genetically programmed cell death.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/20694 (1443 words)

	chad miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Henrietta Lacks was a mother of four in Baltimore.
		The tests were conclusive and at the age of thirty one, in October 1951, Henrietta died of cervical cancer.
		These cells are used widely in Medicine, and some people estimate that the weight of all of these cells all of the world is vastly greater than Henrietta herself weighed when she was alive.
	web.chad.org /weblog/philosophy/hela.html (363 words)

	Commentary: HeLa Cells from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio Program
		In 1951, a thirty-one year old women named Henrietta Lacks lay in a segregated ward of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
		Poor and African-American, born to tobacco pickers from Virginia, Lacks herself was the mother of four.
		His greatest hope was to make and study long-living cultures of the most dreaded human diseases, to have, as someone once put it "a tumor in a test tube." The problem though, was that human cells wouldn't grow in dishes.
	www.engineerguy.com /comm/4170.htm (395 words)

	PARANOIA - Vexing Over Vaccines
		Henrietta Lacks was a young fl woman from Baltimore who died from a highly malignant cervical cancer in 1951.
		But for some unknown reason Henrietta's cancer cells grew vigorously and became known as the first successful human tissue cell line in history - the now famous HeLa cell line commemorating the legendary HEnrietta LAcks.
		Henrietta's cells were kept alive by feeding them a witches' brew of beef embryo extract (the ground-up remains of a three-week-old, unborn cattle embryo); fresh chicken plasma obtained from the blood of a live chicken heart; and blood from human placentas (the placenta is the sac that nurtures the developing fetus and contains powerful hormones).
	www.paranoiamagazine.com /vexing.html (3636 words)

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