1. The Tuskegee Institute opened the first “HeLa factory” in 1952. The first company that would begin selling HeLa for profit was called Microbiological Associates.
2. Henrietta Lacks was born on 1920.
3. George Gey successfully culture the first immortal human cell line using from Henrietta Lack’s cervix in 1951. It is given the name HeLa after the first two initials of Henrietta’s first and last names.
4. Scientists used HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine in 1952.
5. The name of the hospital where Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer is Johns Hopkins Hospital. It was founded in 1889.
6. HeLa cells became the first cells ever cloned in 1953.
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