IN THIS EPISODE I EXPLAIN WHAT HELA CELLS ARE, WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND HOW A WOMANS CELLS WHO DIED OVER 50 YEARS AGO ARE STILL CONTRIBUTING TO VACCINE DEVELOPMENT, INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH, VACCINE RESEARCH AND CANCER RESEARCH TODAY.

Henrietta Lacks HAD WHAT SCIENTISTS CALL IMMORTAL CELLS WHICH HAVE MADE MANY SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES POSSIBLE. WITH OUT

Henrietta Lacks CELLS WE WOULD NOT HAVE A VACCINE FOR POLIO, CERVICAL CANCER AND MANY OTHER VACCINES. THE COVID-19 VACCINE RESEARCH HAS BEEN SUPRED ON BY THE USE OF HELA CELLS.

HERE IS A SNEAK PEEK OF THE ARTICLE REGARDING COVID-19 AND HELA CELLS ON HARVARD http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/vessels-for-collective-progress-the-use-of-hela-cells-in-covid-19-research/ When initially discovered, HeLa cells were the human cell line of choice to study the viral pathogenesis of polio. Now, they are paving the way for COVID-19 research breakthroughs. The groundbreaking study that identified the infectivity of the virus SARS-CoV-2 in humans did so using the cells that were isolated from Henrietta Lacks. Scientists began studying COVID-19 using HeLa cells, but soon found that the virus did not infect these cells well. This curiosity led the researchers to search for the key to viral entry that was apparently missing on the HeLa cells. Other forms of the coronavirus used a molecule, called ACE2, to enter the cells. ACE2 particles surround the surface of some human cells. Maybe the novel coronavirus also enters cells through the same molecule. After engineering HeLa cells to display the ACE2 molecule, the authors observed that the novel coronavirus could then enter and infect the cells

HER UNIQUE CELL DISCOVERY HAVE SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES AROUND THE WORD AND PROVIDED SCIENTISTS KEYS TO UNDERSTANING CELL MUTATIONS. I ENCOURAGE YOUNG ONES ESPECIALLY TO DISCOVER WHO

Henrietta Lacks IS, HOW SCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE BREAKTHROUGHS IN RESEARCH AND HOW

Henrietta Lacks FAMILY CONTINUES TO PRESERVE HER LEGACY WITH THE Henrietta Lacks FOUNDATION.

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