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Inmortal
Ezequiel Calvo Roitberg
Affiliation: El Gato y La Caja Journal. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Keywords: Immortal cells, Henrietta Lacks, El gato y la caja, journal project.
Categories: Life Sciences
DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.2.658
Languages: Spanish, Castilian
This is one of many Articles El Gato y La Caja shares with the JOSHA Journal. This time in the field of Life and Sciences Ezequiel Calvo presents an incredible story about Henrietta Lacks, a woman that changes and improve forever all the labs around the world. Shortly after being diagnosed (and without her consent) a small piece of Henrietta Lacks´ tumor was cut out and put it in a glass dish. Surprisingly, her uterine-cervical cancer cells had the ability to grow indefinitely. In this single immoral act, the beginning of a revolution in cell biology had occurred. On October 4, 1951, Henrietta Lacks died without knowing that a little piece of her was going to be found in almost every laboratory in the world that uses cell culture. This is her story.