Zone1 Henrietta Lacks

[el midgetron]

IM2 & MarcATL I almost can’t believe you liberal cucks are suspicious of what school children might be saying about Henrietta Lacks in their assignments.

I asked the bottom clown MARC what he was imagining those kids were saying. NO ANSWER. Yet you are pressing Unkotare for not yet responding to you?

Get a room you two.

 

[Unkotare]

IM2 & MarcATL I almost can’t believe you liberal cucks are suspicious of what school children might be saying about Henrietta Lacks in their assignments.

I asked the bottom clown MARC what he was imagining those kids were saying. NO ANSWER. Yet you are pressing Unkotare for not yet responding to you?

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They are?

 

[el midgetron]

They are?

Suspicious of what your students are saying about her? Why else would they even ask? And then act like you are avoiding answering them?

How hard is it to imagine what school kids are saying about Henrietta Lacks in their assignments?

 

[Unkotare]

That's why I asked, I wanted to give him a chance to show his character.

I'm not surprised.

Oh, did YOU ask me a question? I don't even look at your posts as long as you are doing that asinine "every other word in bold font" nonsense. Post your question like a big boy and I'll be happy to answer.

Character indeed.

 

[Unkotare]

Suspicious of what your students are saying about her? Why else would they even ask? And then act like you are avoiding answering them?

How hard is it to imagine what school kids are saying about Henrietta Lacks in their assignments?

So far it's just about what one would expect. None of my students had heard of her until I told them, so the ones who chose that as their topic for the research paper are just reading and getting informed about the circumstances. Most were surprised to learn about her, I will say.

 

[Mac-7]

Here is another example of how past racism by whites have iimpacted blacks today. Companies have made billions from this and the famiy has receved none of the money.

Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.

Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey, who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research. As was then the practice, no consent was required to culture the cells obtained from Lacks's treatment. Neither she nor her family were compensated for the extraction or use of the HeLa cells.

Even though some information about the origins of HeLa's immortalized cell lines was known to researchers after 1970, the Lacks family was not made aware of the line's existence until 1975. With knowledge of the cell line's genetic provenance becoming public, its use for medical research and for commercial purposes continues to raise concerns about privacy and patients' rights.

Henrietta Lacks - Wikipedia

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The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

www.hopkinsmedicine.org

Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong​

In Henrietta Lacks’s centennial year, researchers must do more to ensure that human cells cannot be taken without consent.

That day in Erika Johnson’s high-school biology class, some 20 years ago, is seared into her memory. The teacher was leading the students through experiments involving cells from a widely used line known as HeLa. The cell line originated from tissue taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks — and Johnson’s mother was a Lacks. “This is my great-grandmother I’m holding in my hand,” Johnson remembers feeling. “It was a very surreal situation.”

Last month marked 100 years since Lacks’s birth. She died in 1951, aged 31, of an aggressive cervical cancer. Months earlier, doctors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, had taken samples of her cancerous cells while diagnosing and treating the disease. They gave some of that tissue to a researcher without Lacks’s knowledge or consent. In the laboratory, her cells turned out to have an extraordinary capacity to survive and reproduce; they were, in essence, immortal. The researcher shared them widely with other scientists, and they became a workhorse of biological research. Today, work done with HeLa cells underpins much of modern medicine; they have been involved in key discoveries in many fields, including cancer, immunology and infectious disease. One of their most recent applications has been in research for vaccines against COVID-19.

But the story of Henrietta Lacks also illustrates the racial inequities that are embedded in the US research and health-care systems. Lacks was a Black woman. The hospital where her cells were collected was one of only a few that provided medical care to Black people. None of the biotechnology or other companies that profited from her cells passed any money back to her family. And, for decades after her death, doctors and scientists repeatedly failed to ask her family for consent as they revealed Lacks’s name publicly, gave her medical records to the media, and even published her cells’ genome online. (Following an outcry, the genome was soon removed.) Nature later published the genome of another HeLa line1 after the Lacks family reached an agreement with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to approve its release.

Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong

In Henrietta Lacks’s centennial year, researchers must do more to ensure that human cells cannot be taken without consent.

www.nature.com

Ultragenyx must face Henrietta Lacks family lawsuit over HeLa cell profits​

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ultragenyx-must-face-henrietta-lacks-family-lawsuit-over-hela-cell-profits-2024-05-20/

What a bunch of money grubbing black bastards you are shilling for

Johns Hopkins is one of the greatest research charity hospitals in America

Thanks to its medical research millions of people are able to survive cancer in the 21st Century because of knowledge gained from the hospital’s efforts

As the brain damaged wokester from Sweden would say

“HOW DARE YOU!”

 

[Mac-7]

I think they are going after another company that have used the cells.

The greedy ambulance chasing lawyers are circling like vultures

While Lack’s descendants book their next vacation to Hawaii

 

[Orangecat]

The racial harm committed by American white supremacists upon Black Americans hasn't stopped.

Tissue?

 

[Mac-7]

The racial harm committed by American white supremacists upon Black Americans hasn't stopped.

No harm was done to Lacks

 

[MarcATL]

No harm was done to Lacks

Your "I'm white and I say so" schtick doesn't work on me.

 

[Mac-7]

Your "I'm white and I say so" schtick doesn't work on me.

What harm was done to her?

 

[IM2]

Your "I'm white and I say so" schtick doesn't work on me.

It's all part of the psychosis. The pharma companies used her cells without her permission and made billions without compensating her family. That's harm and none of these racists would be talking stupid like this if some white family had been done this way. So f what these iddiots have to say.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I first learned about Henrietta Lacks from a Black History Month display at a local public school. Today she is a celebrated figure, not a victim.

Whatever, objection her family has to the use of her cells has nothing to do with race.



Just look at all this raysis-izm -

In 1996, Morehouse School of Medicine held its first annual HeLa Women's Health Conference. Led by physician Roland Pattillo, the conference is held to give recognition to Henrietta Lacks, her cell line, and "the valuable contribution made by African Americans to medical research and clinical practice".[47][29][48]The mayor of Atlanta declared the date of the first conference, October 11, 1996, "Henrietta Lacks Day".[49]

Lacks's contributions continue to be celebrated at yearly events in Turner Station.[50][51] At one such event in 1997, then-U.S. Congressman from Maryland, Robert Ehrlich, presented a congressional resolution recognizing Lacks and her contributions to medical science and research.[52]

In 2010, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research established the annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture Series,[53] to honor Henrietta Lacks and the global impact of HeLa cells on medicine and research.[54]

In 2011, Morgan State University in Baltimore granted Lacks a posthumous honorary doctorate in public service.[55] Also in 2011, the Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Washington, named their new high school focused on medical careers the Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School, becoming the first organization to memorialize her publicly by naming a school in her honor.[56][57]

In 2014, Lacks was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame.[58][59] In 2017, a minor planet in the main asteroid belt was named "359426 Lacks" in her honor.[60][61]

In 2018, The New York Times published a belated obituary for her,[62] as part of the Overlooked history project.[63][64]Also in 2018, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African-American History and Culture jointly announced the accession of a portrait of Lacks by Kadir Nelson.[65]

On October 6, 2018, Johns Hopkins University announced plans to name a research building in honor of Lacks.[66]The announcement was made at the 9th annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture in the Turner Auditorium in East Baltimore by Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels and Paul B. Rothman, CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine and dean of the medical faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, surrounded by several of Lacks's descendants. "Through her life and her immortal cells, Henrietta Lacks made an immeasurable impact on science and medicine that has touched countless lives around the world," Daniels said. "This building will stand as a testament to her transformative impact on scientific discovery and the ethics that must undergird its pursuit. We at Johns Hopkins are profoundly grateful to the Lacks family for their partnership as we continue to learn from Mrs. Lacks's life and to honor her enduring legacy." The building will adjoin the Berman Institute of Bioethics' Deering Hall, located at the corner of Ashland and Rutland Avenues and "will support programs that enhance participation and partnership with members of the community in research that can benefit the community, as well as extend the opportunities to further study and promote research ethics and community engagement in research through an expansion of the Berman Institute and its work."[66]


Henrietta Lacks statue, Bristol

In 2020, Lacks was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[67]

In 2021, the Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act of 2019 became law; it states the Government Accountability Office must complete a study about barriers to participation that exist in cancer clinical trials that are federally funded for populations that have been underrepresented in such trials.[68]

In October 2021, the University of Bristol unveiled a statue of Lacks at Royal Fort House in the city. The sculpture was created by Helen Wilson-Roe and was the first statue of a black woman made by a black woman for a public space in the United Kingdom.[69]

On October 13, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) presented the Director General Award to Lawrence Lacks, the son of Henrietta Lacks, in recognition of her unknowing contribution to science and medicine.[70] Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the WHO, said: "I cannot think of any other single cell line or lab reagent that's been used to this extent and has resulted in so many advances."[70]

On March 15, 2022, United States Rep. Kwesi Mfume (D-Md) filed legislation to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Henrietta Lacks for her distinguished contributions to science. The award is one of the most prestigious civilian honors given by the United States government.[71]

On December 19, 2022, it was announced that a bronze statue honoring Henrietta Lacks would be erected in Roanoke, Virginia's Henrietta Lacks Plaza, previously named Lee Plaza after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. A statue of Lee was removed from the site in the wake of the protests following the murder of George Floyd.[72] The Lacks statue was unveiled on October 4, 2023.[73]

On June 13, 2023, Loudoun County Public Schools Board members approved the name of the new school, Henrietta Lacks Elementary School, in Aldie, Virginia. The school will serve 960 students from kindergarten through 2nd grade and is expected to open in August 2024.[74]

Henrietta Lacks - Wikipedia

All for a woman who did absolutely nothing.!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

It's all part of the psychosis. The pharma companies used her cells without her permission and made billions without compensating her family. That's harm and none of cted racists would be talking stupid like this if some white family had been done this way. So f what these iddiots have to say.

The cells were collected post mortem. Consent is not required of a corpse.

 

[el midgetron]

Your "I'm white and I say so" schtick doesn't work on me.

Your “I’m a victim so I my shit doesn’t stink” Schlick doesn’t work on me.

Your random bold text doesn’t work on me either. Bold text is for placing emphasis within a body of text or to create a heading. Bolding random words within the same sentence just reads like a crazy person shouting words randomly as they speak. It’s actually very fitting formatting for your content.

 

[ninja007]

It's all part of the psychosis. The pharma companies used her cells without her permission and made billions without compensating her family. That's harm and none of these racists would be talking stupid like this if some white family had been done this way. So f what these iddiots have to say.

the same leftist pharma companies you supported during convid?

 

[MarathonMike]

It's all part of the psychosis. The pharma companies used her cells without her permission and made billions without compensating her family. That's harm and none of these racists would be talking stupid like this if some white family had been done this way. So f what these iddiots have to say.

If anyone on this board exhibits psychotic traits, it's you. I pointed out the obvious flaws in your latest Racist lecture, time to move on to your next failure.