Henrietta Lacks
Net Worth 2024, Height, Wiki, Age, Bio


Henrietta Lacks Net Worth 2024, Height, Wiki, Age

Height: 152 cm / 5 ft 0 in tall


Birthday

: 01 August 1920

Birthplace

: Roanoke, Virginia, US

Sign

: Leo
 

Died

: 04 October 1951

Lived

: 31 years

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Henrietta Lacks Wiki


  • She was an African American woman whose cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, one of the most important cell lines in medical research ever discovered
Real name:Loretta Pleasant

Henrietta Lacks Height


How tall was Henrietta Lacks?152 cm / 5 ft 0 in
Born:01 August 1920 Comment
When did Henrietta Lacks die? / Died04 October 1951
How many years did Henrietta Lacks live? / Lived31 years
Where was Henrietta Lacks born?Roanoke, Virginia, US
Where did Henrietta Lacks die? / Deathplace Baltimore, Maryland
Zodiac sign:Leo

Henrietta Lacks Net worth 2024 (estimated)


How much is Henrietta Lacks worth?Under review
Nationality:American



Who was Henrietta Lacks? / Facts   


  • The HeLa cell line is an immortalized cell line, meaning that unlike most cells, which eventually stop reproducing themselves, cells from an immortalized cell line, under sufficient living conditions, will reproduce themselves indefinitely
  • Lacks was the unwitting donor of these cells from a cancerous tumor biopsied during treatment for her cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. in 1951
  • These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey to create the cell line known as HeLa, a line which is still used for medical research
  • The descendant of slaves and their white masters, Henrietta grew up in rural Virginia
  • After giving birth to two of their children, she married her cousin David "Day" Lacks
  • In 1941 the young family moved to Turner Station in Baltimore County, Maryland so Day could work in Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point
  • After Henrietta had given birth to their fifth child she was diagnosed with cancer
  • Tissue samples from her tumors were taken during treatment and these samples were then subsequently cultured into the HeLa cell line
  • Even though some information about the origins of HeLa's immortalized cell lines was known to researchers after 1970, the Lacks family was not made aware of the lines' existence until 1975
  • In the intervening years, with knowledge of the cell lines' genetic provenance becoming public, the usage of the cells for medical research and for commercial purposes continues to raise concerns about privacy and patients' rights

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