In the story written by Rebecca Skloot "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". The writer explained in the prologue how she went in search of informations about Henrietta Lacks' cells and who she was. She first became interested in Henrietta Lacks cells when she was taking Defler's class for high school credit. Skloot talked about how Henrietta Lacks spent her life right from her childhood till the time she was discovered by Dr. Jones, the gynecologist who diagnosised her tumor that she had cervical cancer. In addition, Henrietta Lacks cells samples were collected at the Hopkins Hospital during her diagnosis treatment by Dr. Lawrence and he gave them to George Gey who usually performed experiments on every kind of cells.
According to the writer, Henrietta Lacks cells are the only cells which were able to reproduced even up till now and those cells have been bought and sold by Billions and they are in laboratories all over the world.
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