1951, Baltimore, United States, the smiling lady in the picture on the right is an African American woman who died thirty years for cervical cancer just what ' years Hopkins Hospital, was named Henrietta Lacks.
Henrietta had a hard life as all the poor of America, passed
in tobacco fields, bent on plants condemned to live, to watch the earth and the sky dream. Before I went out a researcher takes a cell sample
already resigned to watch him die as he was always in a hurry
successo.E cells instead of Henrietta
multiplied like weeds. Today one third of the cell cultures used to
scientific research all over the world comes from the cells of Henrietta:
all doctors know the scientific abbreviation "HeLa".
The extraordinary story of this woman and this miracle is recounted in the book of
American journalist Rebecca Skloot
"Life of Henrietta Lacks immortal recently published
Parigi.In in Italy you can explore this history in La Stampa of Turin edition
March 12, 2011 of journalist Alberto Mattioli.
Luigi De Rosa
PS: Dr. George Gey, the doctor one day Henrietta leaned over the patient and told her what they were capable of doing its cells. Henry smiled and said he was happy that her pain could be useful to altri.Henrietta died poor, pharmaceutical companies have thrived with its cells and also have the nerve to deny assistance to those without insurance Medical: c'est la vie!
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