The Story of Henrietta Lacks

The cancer cells of one Henrietta lacks who we have spoken about on this show many a time and to some really exciting news when it comes to the family of Henrietta lacks. The original samples from this woman Henrietta lacks were reproduced so many times over so many years We're talking about they're still being used today and grown today They use them to create things like the polio vaccine to develop the polio vaccine because they had human cells to run tests on. Thermo Fisher scientific specifically was selling these cancer cells without the families consent and no one talked to Henrietta before she passed away about this.