Tuesday, October 18, 2011

chapter 13 -17



In the chapters, many Scientist like William Scherer a young postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota, Monroe Vincent and his partner, Samuel Reader- The owner of Microbiological associate and some association like NFIP ( The national Foundation for Infantile Paralysis), NIH (National Institute of Health) became interested in He La cells after Henrietta's death. As a result of this, NFIP created a distribution center at the Tuskegee Institute which was one of the most prestigious black Universities in the United State. They supplied He La cells to polio testing Labs and Scientists who interested in buying them, since there was no shortage of He La cells. Meanwhile, a Scientist, Dr. Salk's Jonas had developed the first polio vaccine in February 1952 which he couldn't offering to children until he tested it on a large scale to prove its effectiveness and safeness.
According to Skloot, He La Standardization happened as a result of Tuskegee mass-production. Harry Eagle at the National Institute of Health(NIH) used He La to develop the first standardized culture medium that could be made by the gallon and shipped ready for use likewise Gey and other were able to determined which glassware and test-tube were least  toxic to cells. As a matter of fact, He La cells had helped developed so many things like the number of chromosomes in normal human cells. She talked about how NFIP He La production at the Tuskegee closed down, when a Military man, Samuel Reader Established a factory called Microbiology Associates. As Reader's business grew, demand for cells from Tuskegee plumeted. This Factory were supplying Scientist all the cells they needed to the extend that Gey lose interest; he was annoyed by the widespread fixation on He La. he wrote to Scientist, trying to restrict the way they used Henrietta's cells, but nothing was done.
Skloot also talked about how the name Helen Lane was publicized to prevent from being discovered the true identity of Henrietta Lacks, a misconception that persists to this day among many researchers. she futhered in her explanations by explaining the cavalier attitude of some physicians in this period, and especially how a virologist named Chester Southam injected without any consent, patients, and Ohio state prisoners with Hela cells to see if they could  form tumors in people-something that could be in conceivable today.

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