Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Answers about questions

1.What year did The Tuskegee Institute open the first “HeLa factory,” supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit? What was the name of the company that would begin selling Hela for profit?
      -In1952,The Tuskegee Institute open the first “HeLa factory,” supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit. -The company's was Microbiological Associates .
2.What year was Henrietta Lacks born?
     - She was born in 1920.
3.What year did George Gey successfully culture the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix? Why was it given the name HeLa?
     -In 1951,George Gey successfully culture the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix.-The pseudonym “Helen Lane” first appears in print as the source of HeLa cells.

4.What year did scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine? 
    -In 1952,scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine.
5.What is the name of the hospital where Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer? In what year was it founded?
    - Johns Hopkins Hospital is founded. In 1889,it was founded that Henrietta had cervical cancer.

6.What year did HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned?
    -HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned in 1953.

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