HeLa Cells: Standardization of Medical Research (cell culture)

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                                                            October 11th, 2011

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"Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died.
They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar
industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out.
Their lives will never be the same...................."
             from the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 

No one could have predicted the phenomenal impact one ordinary human being could incur. From the finding of groundbreaking vaccines such as polio to facilitating the use of new medical procedures, Henrietta Lacks's cells truly did leave an "immortal" impact on our world. In this website, we will elaborate how Henrietta's contribution has affected multiple aspects in society such as the legal side, business side and even the medical culturing in our world. 
 

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Khubaib Bari
Naim Chowdhury
Merle Dominguez
Jamille Sorisantos