answers to the questions about Henrietta Lacks

1. In 1952 The Tuskegee Institute opens the first “HeLa factory,” supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit. Within a few years, a company named Microbiological Associates would begin selling HeLa for profit.

2. Henrietta Lacks is born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1920

3. In 1951 George Gey successfully cultures the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix. It is given the name HeLa after the first two initials of Henrietta’s first and last names.

4. In 1952 Scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine.

5. In 1889 Johns Hopkins Hospital is founded.

6. In 1953 HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned.