How could one women in the 1950s be involved with so many scientific discoveries & be called the mother of biotechnology & yet not be a scientist or doctor? Find out in this week's episode!
-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
-NPR interview with Rebecca Skloot, hosted by Terry Gross: Henrietta Lacks - A Donor’s Immortal Legacy https://www.npr.org/2010/02/02/123232331/henrietta-lacks-a-donors-immortal-legacy
-Biography.com article: Henrietta Lacks by Biography.Com Editors And Tyler Piccotti https://www.biography.com/history-culture/henrietta-lacks
-Nature article: How the ‘groundbreaking’ Henrietta Lacks settlement could change research by Anil Oza & Mariana Lenharo https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02479-8
-AP News article: Henrietta Lacks’ family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent by BY LEA SKENE AND SARAH BRUMFIELD https://apnews.com/article/henrietta-lacks-hela-cells-thermo-fisher-scientific-bfba4a6c10396efa34c9b79a544f0729
-Nature editorial: Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02494-z
-Development of the Polio Vaccine: A Historical Perspective of Tuskegee University’s Role in Mass Production and Distribution of HeLa Cells by Timothy Turner, PhD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4458465/
-Article in Basic Science Methods for Clinical Researchers: Cell Culture by Charis-P. Segeritz, Ludovic Vallier https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149418/
- Use of human specimens in research: the evolving United States regulatory, policy, and scientific landscape by Marianna J. Bledsoe and William E. Grizzle, MD, in the journal: Diagnostic Histopathology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3954467/
- Significant Research Advances Enabled by HeLa Cells from NIH Office of Science Policy https://osp.od.nih.gov/hela-cells/significant-research-advances-enabled-by-hela-cells/
-AP News article: Maternal deaths in the US more than doubled over two decades. Black mothers died at the highest rate by BY LAURA UNGAR https://apnews.com/article/black-maternal-mortality-american-indian-hispanic-deaths-64da18fec80f8f1790aee2e9986a757e
- Today.com article: 'You are not listening to me': Black women on pain and implicit bias in medicine by Vidya Rao https://www.today.com/health/implicit-bias-medicine-how-it-hurts-black-women-t187866
-Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article: Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites by Hoffman KM, Trawalter S, Axt JR, Oliver MN. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/
- https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henrietta-lacks/honoring-henrietta-lacks
-US medical debt stats: https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_medical-debt-burden-in-the-united-states_report_2022-03.pdf
& https://www.lendingtree.com/personal/medical-debt-statistics/#:~:text=more%20than%20%2410%2C000.-,45%25%20of%20Americans%20have%20(or%20have%20had)%20medical%20debt,ages%2026%20to%2041%3A%2030%25
-Honoring Henrietta Lacks: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henrietta-lacks/honoring-henrietta-lacks
-Lawrence Lacks' quote: https://hela100.org/media-kit-quotes-1
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