Black Woman's Immortal Cells Stolen and Billion Dollar Medical Industries Created

[Sistine Chapel]

disclaimer: this is not about race. This ain't black history month but fuck it just trying to right a wrong through education. It's from the Smithsonian so yeah it's legit!!!

Does make you wonder how much of this shit went on and how many contributions of black folk was really hidden by whites and / or given to other whites to take the credit for over the centuries. Some sad shit to be honest. So in a nutshell they stole this black woman's cells hid it from the public for decades, created a vaccine for Polio with them but wouldn't tell white people it came from a black person because they feared those white people would have chosen to die rather than accept the black contributed vaccine. Mapping of the human genome, in-vitro fertilization, whole multi-billion dollar medical industries were created off the back of this black womans cells and her family got ZERO compensation. I wonder how many successful doctors in the majority are practicing today because of the industries her cells paved. Man I tell ya; God's day of recompense can't come fast enough for these religious devils.

In 1951, a scientist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, created the first immortal human cell line with a tissue sample taken from a young black woman with cervical cancer. Those cells, called HeLa cells, quickly became invaluable to medical research—though their donor remained a mystery for decades. In her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, journalist Rebecca Skloot tracks down the story of the source of the amazing HeLa cells, Henrietta Lacks, and documents the cell line's impact on both modern medicine and the Lacks family.

Who was Henrietta Lacks?
She was a black tobacco farmer from southern Virginia who got cervical cancer when she was 30. A doctor at Johns Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without telling her and sent it down the hall to scientists there who had been trying to grow tissues in culture for decades without success. No one knows why, but her cells never died.

Henrietta’s cells were the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture. They were essential to developing the polio vaccine. They went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to cells in zero gravity. Many scientific landmarks since then have used her cells, including cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization. It turned out that HeLa cells could float on dust particles in the air and travel on unwashed hands and contaminate other cultures. HeLa cells were the first human biological materials ever bought and sold, which helped launch a multi-billion-dollar industry. When Deborah’s brothers found out that people were selling vials of their mother’s cells, and that the family didn’t get any of the resulting money, they got very angry.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...cells-6421299/

[Slitlikr]

Was she a hooker?

[pyramider]

Are there taint photos?

[Guest050619-1]

Originally Posted by Sistine Chapel

disclaimer:....this is not about race....

Sure. Keep telling yourself that.

[tbone2u]

TFF

[Fishpie]

Originally Posted by Not about race

Lacks ended up with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks, in a two-story log cabin that was once the slave quarters on the plantation that had been owned by Lacks' white great-grandfather and great-uncle.

Originally Posted by Not about race

Lacks was buried in an unmarked grave in the family cemetery in a place called Lackstown in Halifax County, Virginia. Lackstown is the name that was given to the land in Clover, Virginia that was originally owned by white, land- and slave-owning members of the Lacks family before the Civil War. Later generations gave the land to the many black members of the Lacks family who were descendants of African slaves and their white owners.

Some fun facts you left out.

[Sistine Chapel]

Originally Posted by Fishpie

Some fun facts you left out.

it would be nice if you ever learned to make an actual point.

so what is your point ?

[Sistine Chapel]

Originally Posted by Chateau Becot

Sure. Keep telling yourself that.

dont use a disclaimer to deflect; thats not why I used it.

[Guest123018-4]

Another disingenuous threAD.

[Sistine Chapel]

Originally Posted by The2Dogs

disingenuous

about what?

[Don T. Lukbak]

Originally Posted by The2Dogs

Another disingenuous threAD.

....merely one more manifestation of his/her mental disorder.

[Sistine Chapel]

I imagine being confronted with what is likely the real truth against the weak grains of your belief system must be a muthafucker to deal with.

you blissfully ignorant carry on ;-)

[tbone2u]

OP.....your last statement doesn't sound as much "Christ like" as most of the trash you write. Need to step your game back up.

[Sistine Chapel]

Originally Posted by tbone2u

OP.....your last statement doesn't sound as much "Christ like" as most of the trash you write. Need to step your game back up.

hey smart guy - so why is it "trash"?

[tbone2u]

You are the one that said you were "Christ Like"....not me.
I'll let you figure out the "trash" part all by yourself.