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Henrietta Lacks: The Woman with the Immortal Cells

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In February 1951, a young African-American woman by the name of Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cervical cancer. Unbeknownst to her, cells from her specific cancer were extracted and sent to a lab to be studied.
These cells would be given the name He La and would lead to major advancements in medical research. While the cells helped push the scientific field forward, they were unethically obtained and used. The blatant disregard for Lack’s consent echoes a long history of disregard for black bodies in the medical and scientific field.
In this episode of Black History In Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from Hasan Jeffries of Ohio State University, we explore how the morally questionable obtaining of Henrietta Lack’s cells led to medical advancements we still receive benefits from today.
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@IronDogger 4 года назад

More people should be aware of this story and what she contributed to our world, still to this day.

@siraftheone5560 3 года назад

thank you for being a sensible human

@dicktater4801 2 года назад

I think more people should be aware of how similar our medical experts are to the Nazis. They are completely fine with this unethical practice even today.

@xsbiggy6349 2 года назад

@@dicktater4801 what experiment was performed on her that you can equate to nazi medical research? She went and was diagnosed with cervical cancer and was receiving treatment for it. That requires having to give samples. Often of blood and even biopsy tissue samples. It was a normal course of diagnostics and treatment. Nothing even remotely close to nazi experiments. Let me guess, you see nazi's and white supremacists behind every light post also?

@dicktater4801 2 года назад

@@xsbiggy6349 the fact she wasn't notified of the experiment meant she couldn't give consent. The fact that they still use her cells to this day (still without consent) just rubs me the wrong way. And it's not just this. There's the Tuskegee experiment, mk ultra, Bayer, Werner von Braun, fauci with his dog, monkey, and orphaned children experiments...yeah, there's a lot to unpack...

@xsbiggy6349 2 года назад

@@dicktater4801 again, what experiment? You're obviously a little slow and I'm tired of explaining this to the mentally handicapped. She WILLINGLY gave up those samples during g her course of treatment. Once that occurs, they're no longer hers. Plain and friggin simple. It's not like they strapped to her to a table and drip feeds like some kind of Dr Mengala experiment, it's was during a NORMAL course of treatment. One in which she WILLINGLY gave the samples. You're the type of person that thinks if you sell someone a car and don't like how they drive it, you should be able to just take it hack, because it was yours first. You're such a male Karen. And I agree, what happened in the past, to EVERYONE, was horrible. HOWEVER, you cannot equate a story in which protagonist is a victim when everything that they did and agreed to was done willingly during a course of treatment for a deadly disease. I'm just waiting for you to claim her cancer was caused by the govt, deep state, illuminati, free masons, kkk or some other shit.

@tokugeeky2931 2 года назад

Henrietta Lacks did so much without ever knowing.

@SUP3RAMAD3OUS 2 года назад

I forever give respect and praise to Henrietta lacks and her family. I truly think we have failed to give them any form of compensation that HeLa cells have contributed to the scientific community. I fully believe they should be given a large sum and credited for their discoveries

@colin2709 2 года назад

What did her family discover that they should be rewarded for?

@SUP3RAMAD3OUS 2 года назад

@@colin2709 I’ve seen you in these comments heavily talking about how her family deserves nothing while the doctors deserve everything. Mind you that the doctors were very discriminatory as they didn’t inform the family due to their race (you can look that up yourself, there is a documentary on it that goes into details) but moreover when people make a donation to science their names are marked and honored. The doctors attempted to erase miss lacks from their books to prevent the discovery being attributed to a black woman’s cells and not a white woman so they changed her name which is why they were called HeLa in the first place. The family may not have discovered anything but they suffered at the hands of a system that actively hid information about miss lacks such as withholding medical information and even going as far as to say her cells were alive without explaining anything else. To that family their mother, daughter, and sister was being held and experimented on. Now how would you feel being experimented on by doctors claiming they were just helping you

@colin2709 2 года назад

@@SUP3RAMAD3OUS What was the experiment they did, I missed that part?

@colin2709 2 года назад

@@SUP3RAMAD3OUS She didn't do anything, other than to get sick. Questions of malpractice are quite separate from her contribution to the science of cancer.

@SUP3RAMAD3OUS 2 года назад

@@colin2709 her contribution was her disease, dumbass. If hers wasn’t special then show me more immortal cell clusters

@tomschmidt381 2 года назад

I read Rebecca Skloot's book about Henrietta Lacks, it is fascinating and tragic story that is both personal and scientific.

@jessicathompson2177 4 года назад

Thank you 🙏 I’ve been waiting for this.

@frankklein4872 2 года назад

Praise the scientists, this worthless women did nothing

@randysmith9715 2 года назад

I read that book about Henrietta Lacks. Fascinating reading.....

@tmseh 2 года назад

Thank you Ms. Lacks. It wasn't right that they used you without your permission.

@sandyn3384 Год назад

Thank you, Henrietta 😢🌹

@sararenee4940 2 года назад

I have to say I was way more surprised at how her husband (cousin) treated her. He gave her plenty of STDs and probably HPV and that's what gave her cancer. Then shocked at the torment he allowed (according to the book) their children to go through. His kids didn't even know she died nor did he or the family care enough to give her a grave stone, not even a homemade one.

@vanessalowder2712 Год назад

This story was about her phenomenal contribution to the world… not her personal life🤨🙄

@JoyInAccomplishment Год назад

One wrong doesn’t minimize the other.

@ElenivonMondlichtApsouneli 2 года назад

Hello Dr Frankenstein! DO We know her history and what genetic or other diseases she had and if her cells were correct and if any of her problems are transmitted to humans - She may had problems that are unknown to science so far.

@andrewames7567 2 года назад

Yet it has advanced medical knowledge and save more lives than ever before. Her legacy lives on in the research and the people it has saved. No amount of money could be greater than that glory.

@DeathnoteBB 2 года назад

Tell that to her family…

@Ripred741 2 года назад

@@DeathnoteBB lmao its not like they killed, or even hurt her for it. They helped her, and millions of others. Just more people looking for handouts.

@robertwyatt3912 2 года назад

@@Ripred741 Getting compensated is a handout?

@xsbiggy6349 2 года назад

@@robertwyatt3912 what would getting "compensated" accomplish? Nothing. Sadly a beautiful young woman passed away from an aggressive cancer. During her treatment, necessary samples were taken, as happens to EVERYONE, for testing. Meaning the samples were given willingly. In the course of study of those samples, an anomaly is discovered. One so great that it advanced medical research and knowledge by leaps and bounds. To honor the woman from which the anomaly came from, they immortalized her by naming it after her. Forever being known as HeLa cells. That something that will NEVER change. Her cells helped save thousands if not millions of lives. THAT is something that no amount of money can buy. That is a legacy. Her family did not have to give up property, money, land for those cells. They were hers and hers alone. Giving THEM "compensation" achieves nothing. That's no different than riding on the coat tails of another accomplishments. I'm honored to know her genetic anomaly prevented me from contracting polio, because the vaccine was built off the knowledge her cells helped produce.

@robertwyatt3912 2 года назад

@@xsbiggy6349 they weren’t taken willingly.

@HonorTrees 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for honoring her contribution. It matters not she was unaware.

@ericcaissie9137 2 года назад

How do they cells keep dividing, do they give them nutrients to use or did they just multiply without anything

@tinathomas8593 2 года назад

Why isn't Henrietta Lacks tribute to medicine and science not being taught in schools?

@HeilRay 10 дней назад

Cause if people knew, itd be harder to disappear someone with god cells that could change humanity as we know it..

@jinntoliver 11 месяцев назад

Thankful for the Journalist!!

@12_S.A-N Год назад

Her descendants should have compensation

@alex_zetsu 2 года назад

I think Henrietta would much prefer her cells, or at lease these particular ones, in lab dishes than on her cerevix. At least the poor woman got some symptomatic relief for a few weeks. Debulking and radius was the state-of-the-art treatment of cervical adenocarcinoma at the time which resulted in the odd rare cure for the lucky and for 99.9%, a few weeks of relief.

@GETYOBAGMONIQUE 9 месяцев назад

They unalived her and experimented on her i remember her story i cried. 😢

@almunumm9069 2 года назад

god shes underrated

@JordanLittlejohn-jl4lj Год назад

The family should file papers against this company.

@montaquejones4631 4 года назад

Her family needs to sue

@kimkim-mh7bv 3 года назад

What happens if scientists didn't care about it? Will that cell grow on it own under the coffins? Or will it pop up into space? No one praise scientists who work hard to save life.. Resources is good but if we don't learn it that mean no one able to use it. All thank to scientists and resources.. Don't be selfish.

@montaquejones4631 3 года назад

@@kimkim-mh7bv the scientists felt entitled to apart of this woman’s body and never thought of asking or even compensating the family. This is immoral and indefensible. You sound like someone who’s entitled 😂 Don’t be selfish foh

@kimkim-mh7bv 3 года назад

@@montaquejones4631 you are selfish. When human gather resources like oil. Will human need to ask the earth too? You live in one country and it need tax. Will that country need to ask you to pay tax too? Parent cook food for you. Will they need to ask you everytime they cook too? As citizens in one country when your country is nearly destroy. Will your country need to ask you to defend too? When your family bankrupt, will not your duty to help to pay your family's debts too? When you are sick, will not your duty to cure yourself or you need virus to ask you too? This is happen when usa become stupidity leftism. Usa produce drug young kid and dancing everywhere. Every year usa produce almost slut the entire country. Soon enough usa didn't even remember who the founder father is?... Remember it bitch you are selfish...

@montaquejones4631 3 года назад

@@kimkim-mh7bv are you even from Amerikkka?

@montaquejones4631 3 года назад

@@kimkim-mh7bv English clearly isn’t your native 👅 😭😭😭

@terrellmiller4768 Год назад

She's Greatest than God and Jesus combined. Tonight I will pray 🙏 for the 1st time in my lifetime too her ❤❤

@thomasf.769 2 года назад

Anyone passing away young is a tragedy and it’s not race-specific. We should celebrate peoples’ accomplishments and contributions. I suspect Henrietta would be honored to know her cells have contributed to our understanding of life processes.

@walterengler5709 2 года назад

Agree. I am not disagreeing with aspects where people were used for testing in unethical manner. History is rife with such horrors. But to try and equate a sample of cells being taken to those horrors all to back up a biased racial view is sad so sad.

@TheySayImTubby 2 года назад

@@walterengler5709 fr fr, shit like this happened to all races of people, look at the MK Ultra experiments conducted by the FBI, shit was fucked

@walterengler5709 2 года назад

@@TheySayImTubby It is amazing what horrors people can inflict on others when they see those as less than them. Searching the net can find horrors with South Africa on gays in the military (remember it was all white before apartheid), Soviets on anyone (lots of lower class races to pick on), India (that caste system lead to some strange ones), on and on and on .. all the way back to Roman slavery days.

@frankklein4872 2 года назад

Peoples' accomplishments? Yes the scientists deserve praise. This worthless women deserves none. She raised kids who became criminals and murderers

@NoDustZone Год назад

But he's a BM that has a special love for BW and that's ok. Not every BM thinks like you and that's ok too.

@whale2207 2 года назад

Watching The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Very sad story. Deceit is painful. Because of this woman millions more were saved. So she gave life to millions.

@javiercastro8466 2 года назад

Things need to be placed in historical perspective as releases and practices at the time were non-existent for everyone. Was it unethical, I would say yes.

@xsbiggy6349 2 года назад

What was unethical about getting a tissue sample from a patient that willingly gave it up in an effort to best help her own treatment? Because they found an anomaly, found it could do many things and by the time that discovery was made, she passed away, but somebody gotta get paid right? Wrong. That dear woman's genetic anomaly saved COUNTLESS lives, including yours and mine. She couldn't benefit in death, and was given immortality through her legacy. The HeLa cell, is her legacy, a gift given unto the world by a beautiful woman taken so young. What could possibly be greater that being forever a constant in the annals of medical history and flowing through the veins of nearly every single human being on earth. Unethical would've been NOT sending that sample out for further testing. Unethical would've been not treating that woman in the first place. But everything was done in an effort to help her.

@NoDustZone Год назад

Ignore the bitter Blk troll

@imstevemcqueen 2 года назад

Cancer starts when electrical signaling between cells is disrupted...

@mrpushrod9279 2 года назад

Neat, follow the science, right? History never repeats itself with unethical political or medical practices. like ever.

@prestongarvey2599 2 года назад

except pharma companies being corrupt, it's a universal constant along with death and taxes

@chicoblessed9201 Год назад

How did Ms. Henrietta Lacks die?

@Rhino-Prime 2 года назад

If her cells are still alive does that mean she's technically speaking still alive too

@chesterlogan2687 3 года назад

Henrietta Lacks ' descendant must be paid. If a baker steals apples off the tree and says, I made the pie; you still have to pay for the apples you took. " Dr. Yolanda Wilson, professor of philosophy and bioethics at Howard University.

@antoinettewood6429 2 года назад

Exactly……… this a billion dollar industry and her family hasn’t been compensated. Shameful 😔

@gohantanaka 2 года назад

I do agree that something should be done as compensation to the family.

@55_reasons_why74 2 года назад

ooo youtube's deleting dislikes again

@phyllisjohnson8456 Год назад

The Missouri nun who didn’t decay years after her death and Ms. Lacks are 2 examples of real black girl magic!

@lordchronus1179 2 года назад

Why did the narrator's tone, the music, and the word choice of the second half of the video make it sound like a BAD thing that the HeLa cells were HELPING humanity? Yes, the family of the lady in question should be entitled to some sort of reparations for just using the cells without saying anything. However, damning literally every scientific advancement and shunning the original intention behind the initial medical works they drove as 'they only did them there cell sucking from Ms. Lacks 'cause she was a black lady under the white science man's thumb' feels very one-sided, presumptuous, and... I don't know, wrong? Just felt like the video went from a fun fact of science to a political talk-down from a very biased source. Regardless, I may be simply misinterpreting something and nothing's wrong while I just overanalyzed minor details. Food for thought, opinions on the internet, yadda yadda.

@randyross5630 2 года назад

Yeah, making Vaccines and everything based on Super Immortal Cancer, yeah, that's safe... Moron 🤤

@NoDustZone Год назад

It's bad because they stole them. She didn't consent for them to be used for research, did you not watch the video

@lordchronus1179 Год назад

@@NoDustZone I did watch it, and you're right that the HeLa cells were used for experiments without her consent. I would also like to point out that those cells were taken from her for TESTING after she had VOLUNTARILY submitted herself for a check-up that properly diagnosed her cancer through those very cells she GAVE them. Yes, Mrs. Lacks was likely made unaware of the enormous impact that her cells had on creation and progression of numerous medical advancements, as displayed in the video, but most of the fruits from this research didn't even come about until long after Mrs. Lacks had passed away and could no longer benefit from it herself. However, I'd like to make it clear that my main scruple was not the fact that she was wrongfully excluded from any benefits that HeLa cells brought to humanity, I only wanted to comment on how the narrator's tone and word choice seemed to imply that everything those HeLa cells have brought forth (vaccinations, chemotherapy, etc.) were BAD purely based on the family of the long-dead Mrs. Lacks seemingly protesting about their ancestor's part in it. So, yes, you are factually right, but that wasn't my point; I personally don't think their research mattered when she was dead as a doornail when it finally became useful.

@rodolphedrolet6994 2 года назад

Thank for the truth of how the hind a lie what other lies have research told

@yvettetwaters7524 17 дней назад

💐🙏🏽💝

@aw4955 2 года назад

They'll never give our people the credit that we are do.

@MaxcineRobinson-gh4vz 20 дней назад

What does this tell you about the GREATNESS of BLACK PEOPLE JESUS knew what he was doing when he CREATED BLACKS FIRST and I FEEL We'll be the LAST ONES STANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@colin2709 2 года назад

She didn't contribute anything, her cancer was of a type that could spawn.....is that something she had control over? What possible entitlement do her family have? I don't know but perhaps the scientist who actually worked on solving cancer issues deserve reward and not just someone who had a particular kind of cancer - how is that an entitlement to a reward?

@talmageludlow8109 2 года назад

because doctors never told her and profited from her cells. Which, by the way, that's illegal. That's her and her descendant's entitlement, the money. Her family did even have health insurance, and she's a literal hero!!

@colin2709 2 года назад

@@talmageludlow8109 She died of a cancer (unfortunately, quite common) what's heroic about it? Doctors 'profited' from her cells by doing research on how cancer works in the hopes of developing a treatment (shocking behavior- make them pay). She had absolutely no influence over her cancer, how on earth is she a hero? Her cancer cells had the ability to survive and multiply - maybe they should get an award? (using your logic).

@talmageludlow8109 2 года назад

@@colin2709 if a part of your body was taken without your consent or knowledge and used to make money what would you do? would you think 'oh, whatever I didn't do anything, the people making money off my body are the people how actually did something? or would you think 'I'm going to sue them'? yeah, I thought so. And to your point doctors 'profited' (why the ''? I don't know because they did profit) they made money by selling her cells, her body, and her family did not receive a single penny from this. Even google is wrong!!! Google says that George Gey didn't profit from this, but he did!! He was the first person to sell her cells, so yes he 'profited'. Also, her cells were used to develop a treatment for polio, HIV, AIDS, HPV, gene mapping, how radioactivity affects human cells, corona, and drug testing. her body contributed to science so much that many scientists have called her cells an 'invaluable tool in medical research.

@colin2709 2 года назад

@@talmageludlow8109 When I had my cancer tumor removed (I called it Fred) I was quite glad that the Doctor took it off my hands (I was just real estate to Fred; I had him evicted, so to speak). Last time I saw Fred was when the Doctor showed him to me, post op; I can't say he was that pretty, just a piece of cancerous pulp actually (he was a hell of a bludger, contributing nothing to my well being whilst taking all the sustenance that kept him alive); and on top of that he had megalomaniac tendencies and wanted to spread everywhere. I hope they have kept Fred and he resides in a laboratory or some medical school where they torture him constantly (we didn't get along - he wanted to kill me and I didn't want to die). Merely having cancer is not an achievement in itself. It's not at all clear to me how the woman was a hero...what exactly did she do? What exactly did she or her family do to merit reward? (hint-absolutely nothing) The cancer cells were used by people who deployed knowledge and skill, they worked to put them to use in further studies. Call me old fashioned but I thought you actually have to do something to merit a reward. Lets celebrate the level of skill that it takes to unravel the malady that is cancer - lets reward the people who have done the real work in advancing our knowledge of how to treat it.

@talmageludlow8109 2 года назад

@@colin2709 I'm not saying the scientists who did all that work should be thanked. What I am saying is her family should benefit from this! When Henrietta's daughter, Deborah, found out what had happened, she had a stroke and several other health complications. She didn't have a lot of money and struggled to pay her medical bills, things that other people caused. They didn't help Deborah, not a single bit. That's not right, if you don't agree with that then go talk to a therapist.

@trudiwilliams2369 11 месяцев назад

Now their using her cancer cells as lab meat

@nathanhale7444 2 года назад

Well that's liberals for ya.

@DumpsterBug 2 года назад

this was great.. intill they just had to throw race into ths.. cause i see the title is about the girl with her immortal cells.. but nooo they just want to throw race into it.