I feel bad for Henrietta, she had the most insane cancer, there was no way she was going to be cured from having that. But, her misfortune is our fortune I guess, we live in a better world thanks to her
Not much fortune as I’m sure her family got no sort of recognition or compensation since they didn’t even know they were using it. Super sad. But one can only hope to contribute so much to humanity after death.
The abuse the was subjected to by John Hopkins wasn't even covered in this video. They never treated her like a patient and were never transparent about what they were doing. The "treatments" that they gave her ended up leaving her infertile
@@suclox12yearsago56 all patients, regardless of their prognosis, are owed ethical, honest treatment. Hopkins treated her as an experiment rather than a human being who was is pain, and were more concerned with studying her than offering palliative care that would have allowed her to better tolerate her final days. The cells harvested from her are a major boon to medicine, but they weren’t taken with informed consent from her or her family.
Got to learn about her in school since I live in Baltimore. It's sad science classes don't teach much about her. Without her, we wouldn't have so many medical advances. Her family deserves compensation.
Why do they deserve compensation? It always seemed weird how the family would receive compensation for the suffering of a member after they passed. Maybe funeral expenses as they identified the improbability of curing her and focused on the more likely benefits she could bring to science, therefore robbing her of tiny chance to get better, but otherwise, I don’t see the point, or where they deserve it at all. At best it’s minor compensation for mental stress and funeral expenses. Plus, science classes won’t teach something like this because it’s relatively irrelevant to many curriculums and it’s a complex topic to cover. You can’t plop down something like this and say literally nothing about it. It would have to be incorporated into a unit, and the immortal tumour doesn’t have relevance in most science class that aren’t post secondary. It’s not sad that classes cannot cover every interesting or noteworthy thing, it’s actually pretty good. Because what’s interesting or noteworthy is subjective and could be less useful than, say, understanding how vaccines work.
@@theonethathungers5552 well medical corporations make billions in cash off of her cells each year which she didn’t even consent too. Her family being compensated is the least they could have done.
Didn’t even watch the video well enough to remember it was cervical cancer… it IS pretty simple there, bud, and you still failed. We owe a lot to the Lacks family. Researchers stole her cells and profited from them. That’s all the justification you need for massive compensation.
Aquamanic4 Taking her cells and using them for commercial purposes without her consent or compensation is theft. This killed her, and her family have nothing to show for it.
I remember reading about Henrietta and her cells in college. It was so amazing. It was also kinda terrible to read about her cells being used for such amazing science without Henrietta ever consenting to her cells being used this way or her family ever being compensated. Can't remember if her family ever did get compensation, but I remember the book mentioning her family eventually going to court about it. It was nice to see this video mention the unethical history behind the science instead of just glossing it over as if Henrietta and her family never mattered.
Sorry if this sounds dickish, but sometimes the greater good of many, scratch that, the whole humankind, trumps the selfish wants/need of an individual. If I'm the first immortal being on earth, sure I would run to avoid capture because I'm selfish, but I would understand why people chasing me and try to capture me, I wouldn't blame them.
But in this case she's already dead, cancer killed her. Arguing for the consent of cells of a dead human being and demanding payment or royalty is selfish at best, and gold digging at worst.
@@erboch7124 they did hide what they was doing with her cells at the beginning and even experimented on her children, which is very bad I have to admit, but after the whole thing came to light, the name of Henrietta Lacks was everywhere, it was impossible to not hear about her cell line when you study anything biology in college. Acknowledgement: checked. They did wrong her children though, one time compensation for that, sure, but that's it imo.
Glad someone finally explained the "immortal cancers" properly to me. Until now I thought that scientists all over the world were infinitely growing _unkillable_ blobs of cancer.
@@dotsubmcdoodle2959 did the 8 people that liked your comment just like it because it sounded like an interesting concept? you will get no relevant results from "one around dog(s)". these people liked a nonsense comment before even seeing if it was true or not lmfao
@KULLED she's talking about cancerous dog cells. In English they teach about understood subjects. There is enough on the one around dogs that's why 8 people liked her comment
Well the point of these videos is to make them simple and short so they can reach people that generally wouldn't be interested In this stuff so it makes sense that it misses some specific details or complex info
Agree Yan. I have not read the book but am aware of the ethics issues towards Henrietta and the manner in which the cells were harvested. Patients these days, beware of false imprisonment
BlueBerryKing because i don't give a shit and how is this gonna help me in life ME NOT Another PERSON THAT A DONT EVEN FUCKING KNOW school is already shit why do u need to make it more shitty
How have you not paid attention in biology class while ignoring your English teacher's crossover reading assignment of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. You're a terrible student.
+Steven Torrey In the days of Henrietta Lacks, cells were named by the first two letters of the first and last name of the patient--hence, HeLa cells. John Moore complained about cells derived from his spleen being called Mo. He thought this was dehumanizing. So now cells are given numbers instead of names. Yet, Henrietta Lacks herself achieves recognition and immortality by having the cells named directly after her--Henrietta Lacks--HeLa.
+Steven Torrey Also in the days of Henrietta Lacks (she died in 1951) the ethics re the taking of cells, the taking and disposal of body parts, and financial remuneration for any pharmaceutical cures from any medical research with the cell was far hazier than it is today. To say the family was denied 'financial recompense' as a result of pharmaceuticals derived from her cells suggests a level of intentional sinister that is just not there. Not even in a sense of 'oversight.' The safeguards in place today were simply not present in those days. And even today, once that biopsy leaves the body, once the limb leaves the body, the patient cannot claim it for his own; and there are a lot of health reasons for that. Like what is a person going to do with an 'appendix? Where does the patient keep it? And lots of other practical health considerations re diseased body parts. (Rebecca Skloot discussed this in her book, THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. And the Court has consistently sided with the medical profession regarding ownership of disposed body parts.)
Henrietta Lacks death seems mysterious. Think about it business wise, after making a discovery of her cells why need her, but her cells; therefore, she can't claim profits of her unique cells, she dies of cervical cancer is what they say. In my point of view, Lacks was deprived of life in exchange for financial wealth. It's just the new world, that's how corporations and private firms earn their wealth, off the back of others.
Steven Torrey so you are okay with the continual "co-opting" of the African American body for furthering of science and future endeavors to heal etc. I did not read the book (I plan to) but even I know that the Eurocentric mind WOULD see that there is nothing wrong with profiting off "black bodies" because it is disposable. Shame on you for your "lack" of sensitivity and your cavalier attitude toward savage thievery. The LEAST the scientists could have done (if not share profits) was let the woman know what they were doing. You probobly think it was okay to use those Tuskeegee men to do syphilis experiments on cause they WERE considered 3/5ths human. Get outta here! People talk trash when its about "them folks" or "other", would you be so understanding and cavalier if it were YOUR family's DNA used to pioneer present modern day medicines, and your family didn't even get the respect of a scientists disclosure agreement! #FOHWTBS
Cristian Mercado Sorry, but that is conspiracy nonsense. She had cancer in the early 1950s and received the treatment that was standard at the time. Unfortunately, that couldn't prevent the cancer from metastasizing and she died within less than a year. I doubt researchers had figured out the value of the cells by then: they were initially donated to other labs and the discoveries mentioned in the video were made years or decades later. Also, keep in mind that these were different times in terms of patient consent and on top of that she was African-American in a time before the civil rights era.
This sounds like the start to some science fiction movie where the HeLa cells just keep dividing and growing until they're like some super blob monster covering the world.
I actually go to a school named after her! What really sucks is that her family wasn’t just middle class-they were in poverty. Henriettas kids couldn’t even afford healthcare, but certain companys we’re making trillons of dollars.the doctors also A) never told her she would be infertial after the radiation treatment B) continually sent her back home even though she was in horrible pain C) never told her family she was dying-they all thought the doctors were still trying to cure her. I suggest to read “the immortal life of Henrietta lacks” by Rebecca skloot
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky No offense to the scientists (well maybe a little)but this is stupid! If HeLa cells are unusual in the sense they will reproduce indefinitely and can survive on their own, why test them to substitute for results from normal cells, sure it's easy, but it CHANGES THE RESULTS! I mean there have to be other changes that are indistinguishable but we won't find any because all of the test cells are HeLa cells. Am I missing something?
@@Dact3 imagine those movies where they make like an identical twin of yourself but the personality is totally different. This is basically when Henrietta lacks cells and her cancer cells are
Henrietta Lacks's cells helped make Jonathan Salk famous when he used her çells to make the polio vaccine in 1953 amazing since Henrietta Lacks only died in 1951. A very skilled lab technician came back from a break and found Mrs Lacks cells had multiplied. After they found Mrs Lacks cells multiplied it seemed at will they have been used many times for medical treatments for humans. Much money has been made from Mrs Lacks cells. How ever her family and MRS Lacks is dead. No money was received by Leak family nor did they know of the research using her cells. Or that vaccines and cloning of cells was being done. So I am wondering if Mrs Lacks family has received any money so they can live above the poverty line and benefit from the funds being made from her immortall cells. Would someone write in case there has been any changes for the Leaks family. Or if Mrs Lewis cells were used to make THE ÇOVID19 VACCINE rather interesting science. Looking forward to comments.
When I was interning at NIH, an amazing group of scholars gave myself and a group of other students the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". I have markings and bookmarks all over this book just to make note of my favorite and most inspiring parts and even wrote a paper on it in university. I highly recommend this book to anyone! It doesn't matter your education level. It's just the most interesting book I've ever had. You will come to know and love the Lacks family and understand their side.
Here’s a question, if her cells are “immortal” meaning they’ve been dividing for 70 years straight with no end in sight, do we know for sure that the dna of those cells hasn’t changed since ‘51? I mean, a serious issue with cell division that this video points out is that eventually errors creep into the code, so are HeLa cells immune codon errors as well? If that’s the case, my next question would be “is it because HeLa cells have so many sets of chromosomes, that they can self correct after each division?”
I think it not even human cell anymore, it's have similiar dna of human but different species, it's another being maybe if the cell can be in human form and have consciousness we will have some thing like purple thanos? 😂
If you guys liked this video, I would recommend reading the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". I chose to read it for a prior AP Lang class and I loved it! The aquiration of the HeLa cell was a lot more shady than this video reveals. The book has interviews with her family and reveals their resulting hardships as well as the struggle of minorities to receive help within the medical field in Henrietta's time.
i read that book to. i heard about HELA before the book but now i know so much more about it. HELA helped with a lot of things but its sad that they took her cells without asking or telling her family.
I actually knew of this, if i’m not mistaken (they may go over this in the video) but she specifically stated she did not want her lab samples to be used past her death, i dont think she even wanted them to be studies to begin with. But Gey was too infatuated with the potential scientific discoveries, as right as he may be, Lacks specifically said she didnt want her cells to be used
@@CedarHunt Ignoring peoples rights always serves in the reduction of human suffering.... But hey there's enough profit and a good PR spin on this, so let's all be idiots who support people doing whatever they want to whomever they want so long as they get results.
@@Meatbrawl to be fair, this was in an era where you had the option to be unethical about it. Nowadays you would never go against a patient wishes no matter how much it would be of an advancement for us as society
Well.. There are times when you get scientific oppertunities that are just too important to not pursue. Yes, It's important to respect human rights and so on, but what if you have the potential cure for cancer right in front of you? Are you seriously just gonna give that up because some dude didn't want you to take a cell sample?
Henrietta: "I wish for immortality.." Genie : "your wish is my command.." Henrietta: "I have an itching feeling that I forgot to mention some important details.."
If you haven't I highly recommend reading 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' it's an amazing book talking about her family life, how scientists discovered the cells, and what her children have to say about her cells
Her family didn't get a dime, that is the biggest shame science has . Her cells saved the world but the scientist didn't care about her family. Thank you Queen Henrietta Lacks we are eternally grateful.
+Abraham Animations Hela is cancer immortal because you can't beat Hela because 82 specie of Hela who surviver like space, water, oil, hot, ecc... Hela is worth of that bear water (tardigrade). not just, 82 species of Hela kill you as you can't surviver like 1 year of horror.
Monkey D Luffy, are YOU not forgetting that it is some people who do not accept science as an explaination over their beliefs, and not the overall religion? (which no individual can reprecent)
The disrespect in this comment section is honestly appalling. Henrietta isn't just a hero for "getting cancer". Her cells helped scientists discover the vaccine for polio, develop in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping. Without this woman's quickly replicating cells, we wouldn't know much about major diseases like Ebola and HIV. Henrietta deserves some recognition for what her cells have done. She didn't know about them, but they were hers and without them, we would not have advanced so quickly in medicine. What these doctors and scientists did to Henrietta was morally and ethically wrong. During her radiation treatments for cervical cancer, two cervical cell samples were removed without her consent. Her cells were sold to many scientists without her or her family's knowledge. No one buying or selling her cells in the beginning even knew who she was! Johns Hopkins claims that there was never any buying or selling of her cells, but in the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Rebecca Skloot does in depth investigating on the entire case. If this was done in this day and age, huge repercussions would have been implemented. Although it is hard to understand that some people have no interest in donating their cells or organs to science, there are many people who would not consent to it. It is important to respect these people's decisions and not ask "what kind of person would you be if you declined?". No one knows what Henrietta's wishes would have been on this topic, so it is unfair for everyone to say that her lack of consent doesn't matter. Also, no one knew that her cells would revolutionize medicine until AFTER they were wrongfully taken from her. So the fact that they did change medicine does not justify the action of stealing her cells.
If she never went to that hospital, they never would have had her cells in the first place... Her cells were the only ones that lived long enough to do research on at that point in time. If her cells didn't replicate as quickly as they did, they would have had nothing to research. Also they stole her cells while she was still alive... Please do a fact check before making invalid claims. She didn't "just die" and then have her cells taken by scientists. She was ALIVE. Therefore, she was not just a corpse that "no one gives a shit about". I hope you aren't learning about this for school because if you are, you have the facts all wrong.
Zastavan fuck those scientists who STOLE her cells for their own personal gain. She did not consent to the donation of her cells and they basically gave a big middle finger to her family. It was highly unethical and they are still profiting off of her today, decades after her death. She didn't even get that option to be "another corpse no one gave a dn about" because they took that from her. And while they lay comfy in bed at night because they are profitting from her, her family struggles to feed themselves and get healthcare, which is quite ironic.
Zastavan Without ethics we have people don't whatever the fuck they want, case and point. They did good work of the cells of a woman who they didn't notify they were taking cells from. And they are profitting from cells of a woman all the while ignoring the ethics and guidlines broken to get to where we are in the first place. I'm not callubg you out your name, don't call me out of mine. We are not 3 and we have other ways of communicating other than name calling
Zastavan That doesn't mean you can't call them out. That doesn't mean you don't speak out when they are wrong. They control you if you let them. I went to Johns Hopkins and I still called them out on bullshit while I was attending. Wrong is wrong.
Rachel You were right at first... but I would like to point out that any scientist who got their hands on an immortal line of human cells would have known that it would be incredibly useful in lab tests and disease research. The man who did get his hands on it wouldn't have sent it to other scientific labs if he did not expect it to be useful. _ALSO,_ the thing you mentioned about her tumor being taken without her consent? Well now it's not inside of you trying to kill you! Isn't that better than if we just left it in and let it take it's course? I'm just imagining how that conversation would go: Henrietta: Did you... take two of my tumors? Doctor: Yes, why? Henrietta: *WITHOUT MY CONSENT!?!?* Doctor: We were just doing our jo- Henrietta: *_NO!_* Put it back in! It's my cancer and you can take it out when I ask you to.
We used HeLa cells during animal cellbiology class in university (bsc biology) by now it is kind of a standard cell line to work with. We used them for cellmigration Experiments That are meant to resemble wound healing processes. Cheers to her for advancing our knowledge by such a magnitude
And let's also remember that the reason the doctor who discovered this didn't tell her or ask consent from her family was because she was an African American woman living in the most segragated times of America. A big thak you to Henrietta Lacks!
This is actually the correct answer. Without the old dying before being a drain on the population there won't be enough resource to raise the healthy youth. Evolution has made a compromise.
I'd say that she is only symbolically alive through the cells. It's like saying you are living in another body if you donate a kidney or blood. It's just a matter of belief I guess.
The cells were extracted at a very late stage of cancer, it is unlikely that she was the only patient to have the cells. Though she is the first to have those cells studied.
+boy638 Unlikeley. But, she was the first one, where this cells were recorded and could be extracted. So, if you have what you need, why spend further energy in the search for similar things as you know, you will find it? The cells are "immortal", so they will not cease to exist. She just had a very basic form of cancer, comparable to everyone having Lemonade or Icetea while you having distilled Water as drink. Indeed, the immortality is the problem in our genetic construction plan - we need to be mortal, or we would die by cancer before even reach the 6th Birthday. Mortality is the motor of our evolution, allowing us to adapt and survive - we can even alter our attributes to adapt to our enviroment within 20 Years by just living in that enviroment - if we were immortal, we need to reproduce for that and even then it woiuld be unlikeley that some mutation takes root, as the Genes were stable - so, adaption would take about (estimated) 120-1200 Years, as genetic adaption only happens by reproduction. It were not her normal cells, it was the mutation of it, the cancer, who bears the possibility of immortality - as every cancer can do at a small possibility.
+Dantick09 If she were a mutant, it would have been from the sex cells in one of her parents. She was no more a mutant than any other cancer victim. The mutation happened only in her cancer cells. And because on that cancer, many lives were save and in a way, she is still alive today.
Kimiko Tekuno Depends. Basically, you are true, but on the other hand, we are all mutants, having inactive potential for some mutaton - this is why some people have keen sight and others need glasses. And both of them could be the "mutant". People which are getting very old while doing unhealthy stuff have mostly some genetic advantage like a better resistance against toxics or very strong DNA very resistant against damage. So, if Danticks thought, even if just a joke, can be true or not - and that can be solved by taking a closer look at this circumstances in her family tree - either there is some predisposition towards getting old or there is a predisposition towards the opposite, die young but having a astonishingly rate of healing while alive. This mostly is a rezessive Gene, so we need to take a look at her grandmother and cousins and nephews. Indeed, the question about the Nature of this Mutation was one of my first thoughts I was very interested in as I saw this.
so how did the transaction of the cells go "Hey you want some cancer cells?" "why would I want that?" "Don't worry, they're immortal" "OKAY LETS HAVE 'EM"
No the doctors took her cells without her even knowing it. It's like when they ask for maybe a blood test or something. But they took some of her tissue without her consent. And it's a shame her family got not even a penny out of it even though HeLa cells cured so many diseases and helped so many people and just mankind in general.
when i was in 5th grade i met her grandson when he came to fix our school computers. it was a cool experience because you never think something like that could be experienced in a baltimore public school. that was abt 6 years ago but definitely was something memorable. (edit: great grandson i’m pretty sure*)
It is disappointing to see all the comments basically saying "thank her for what?" I guess if these people donated all their money to science, they should expect to NOT get a thank you. I mean why? All they contributed is money. These folks should really read "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. They should also read how these companies and scientists are suing each other for take on the money pot but for some reason people think that the actual person who scientists get the cell from shouldn't get anything.
The book does include that, such as other examples of this and many legal cases and the laws which resulted or did not pan out and how sometimes the scientist where allowed to continue certain actions or not.
As long as Science advance forward I don't care about being thanked. You have to understand what a donation means. I don't donate to get praises or "thanks". I donate because I feel like it is the right thing to do.
Honestly any decent human being should be proud that cells from their own bodies are being use to save lives, its like giving blood you never know when what you give away can save you or a loved one or even advance treatment to save a friend of your kids someday.
I feel this video could have had more emphasis on how they did all this without Hentrietta's permission and her family didn't know about it for years. While I salute her contribution to science, it is a good example of how the rights of individuals, especially poc, have traditionally been violated in the pursuit of research.
This video is talking about Henrietta's cells not Henrietta. If you want things about rights and sensitive topics like that you can find another video.
This is interesting. What I've learned about cells and cancer in general, follows along what the narrator told us; natural cells have a certain lifespan and follow a specific replication code that causes them to Start and Stop when needed. Cancer cells don't follow these replication codes, and continue to replicate themselves despite the fact they still receive those commands to stop. Cancer is especially difficult to get rid of, because inside a cluster is a bunch of different types of cancer, so one method of treatment would only destroy a fraction, allowing the rest to continue replicating. Because cancer cells are stuck in the Replication phase, they don't really die!
So what did you do with your life? Oh, I became technically immortal and am the sole reason many vaccines and many scientific studies exist. What about you? I... I’m a janitor
Ian Layman without her consent and make money with her cells and don’t give nothing to her family... the industry make so much money with Henrietta cells if her family receive the money for the using of cells her family will be the most richer family in that world
@@distraughtdistraight6415 seriously the stuff they have to do everyday, clean up a place that you don't know what older or younger children did to, and the fact that they have to clean so much too
@@afist5595 Agreed. Janitors are very important. In the micro world, if there weren't cleaning processes life would either not exist or be absolutely horrifying.
Gogo Louie Yes of course it should have been obtained. However at the time, it was common not to obtain consent from patients for any research. It want until nearly a decade later when the NIH decided to begin using Ethics committees for granting research funding. This came off the back of research they conducted showing that very few of the labs they funded, had bothered to gain consent.
I wish this was taught in Indian schools' curriculum. When I was in high school, I was taught about basic functions of cells, the impact on cures and causes of various diseases but how they came to be in effect, it was definitely not included. I don't know about now, but in my time, this was something my high school science subject did not cover. I really wasn't aware about Henrietta Lacks until in my late 20s. I wish this was percolated more in high school science books and not surppressed. Nobel winners in science get immense recognition for discoveries in scientific field but someone like Henrietta should be included too in highest honour. I am glad that Ted Education made this video on her and I hope that Rebecca Skloot's beautiful description about HeLa cells and Henrietta's life in her book, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' reaches to many more globally.
When you were high school, you couldn’t understand it. It’s not suppressed, the high school curriculum gives you necessary basic information to understand things about your surroundings. It’s not actively inhibiting you from finding it out. I guarantee modern day high schools have technology in the building that can give access to this. If it was being suppressed, there’d be an active effort to hide it.
I really enjoyed the art in this video. The different viruses being represented as some abstract characters felt like a cool art project or exhibit and now I want more
The non-feeling part is where I'd stop. I would personally want to actually know that I'm helping people by being the immortal lump of purple flesh I am.
50% of comments "omg it was so wrong that they didn't pay her for this blah blah blah" other 50% "I don't understand science and think that this will be able to make me immortal"
B-b-but you could just directly inject her cells into your veins and that would be instant immortality! It's not like it's possible for humans to reject other humans cells. Nor is cancer in anyway considered uncontrollable cell division. -.-. .- -. .----. - / .-- .- .. - / ..-. --- .-. / .--. . --- .--. .-.. . / - --- / .. --. -. --- .-. . / - .... . / ... .- .-. -.-. .- ... --
I learned about HeLa cells in my 9th grade Biology class. Kickass tbh. Feel for the lady's family. They should literally just.. be given heaps of money as compensation because of the immortal descendent that has immeasurably changed medicine.
For those that are saying it's potentially problematic, I'd like to state that if I ever get cancer and they remove it, they can do whatever they want with it. If it helps advance science, even better.
But see, you're not Henrietta. I completely agree with you that this is a worthwhile cause, but the fact that her family wasn't told for years that her cells were being shipped around the world and experimented on isn't right.
The hospital needs to test the tumor by growing it. This one grew weird so the doctor asked other doctors, who asked other scientists. Before long, everyone was holding it.
+-Wish- oh look, a guy who is randomly pissed without any reason whatsoever. such a rare species to see these days. are you lost, your poor little thing? aaaw...
***** oh wow you do take this seriously. yes i do presume you are pissed from the term "shut the fuck up". like, saying "shut up" sounds more angry than "be quiet" isnt it. and add the word "fuck" which means you are emphasizig the "shut up", hence i presume you are pissed. second, this is just a fanboying joke-comment, excited on the release of the deadpool movie in 3 days. and the relation of it, is the fact that the maker of deadpool makes the character to be IMMORTAL and also has terminal CANCER. the cancer keeps MULTIPLYING hence he is immortal. see how it relates with HeLa ? or are you just that serious and dense all the time? i might be explaining to some internet hermit who doesn't really know well on the deadpool hype-train, or maybe you are just trolling and you got me lol. why so serious?
There was a lot of controversy over these because Henrietta’s family never got any credit for the unintentional contribution she gave medical science (partially because they were called “Helen Lane” cells).
The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is my favorite book and is the most easy reading and interesting non-fiction book I have ever read. I would recommend this book to anyone! (I don’t even like reading no -fiction; that’s how good it is)
I feel bad for Henrietta, she had the most insane cancer, there was no way she was going to be cured from having that. But, her misfortune is our fortune I guess, we live in a better world thanks to her
May her soul rest in peace.
Not much fortune as I’m sure her family got no sort of recognition or compensation since they didn’t even know they were using it. Super sad. But one can only hope to contribute so much to humanity after death.
1 person's death could save millions of lives :)
@@clarissamiller1525 i don't think he was referring to her family's fortune
@@Fidder492 ah yes. I reread the original comment now. Thanks. Likely replied it while half asleep haha.
The Good Thing: we have achieved immortality
The Bad Thing: it’s just cancer
the struggles of immortality is real 😩😂
What if you had the choice to be immortal but you had to be entirely cancer 😶
@@QuackZack deadpool headass
eh she’s not really immortal herself, just her cells are and they barely have any of her DNA in them.
That's how Deadpool works, actually. 😂😂
The abuse the was subjected to by John Hopkins wasn't even covered in this video. They never treated her like a patient and were never transparent about what they were doing. The "treatments" that they gave her ended up leaving her infertile
welcome to chemo baby
Welcome to 1951
Ethic medecine started in 1973
I mean yes, you are infertile when you’re dead
Mate there was not a chance in the world that she would survive this super cancer what are you on about
@@suclox12yearsago56 all patients, regardless of their prognosis, are owed ethical, honest treatment. Hopkins treated her as an experiment rather than a human being who was is pain, and were more concerned with studying her than offering palliative care that would have allowed her to better tolerate her final days. The cells harvested from her are a major boon to medicine, but they weren’t taken with informed consent from her or her family.
Got to learn about her in school since I live in Baltimore. It's sad science classes don't teach much about her. Without her, we wouldn't have so many medical advances. Her family deserves compensation.
At the very least some recognition.
Why do they deserve compensation? It always seemed weird how the family would receive compensation for the suffering of a member after they passed. Maybe funeral expenses as they identified the improbability of curing her and focused on the more likely benefits she could bring to science, therefore robbing her of tiny chance to get better, but otherwise, I don’t see the point, or where they deserve it at all. At best it’s minor compensation for mental stress and funeral expenses.
Plus, science classes won’t teach something like this because it’s relatively irrelevant to many curriculums and it’s a complex topic to cover. You can’t plop down something like this and say literally nothing about it. It would have to be incorporated into a unit, and the immortal tumour doesn’t have relevance in most science class that aren’t post secondary. It’s not sad that classes cannot cover every interesting or noteworthy thing, it’s actually pretty good. Because what’s interesting or noteworthy is subjective and could be less useful than, say, understanding how vaccines work.
@@theonethathungers5552 well medical corporations make billions in cash off of her cells each year which she didn’t even consent too. Her family being compensated is the least they could have done.
I mean it's pretty simple
"Henrietta Lacks She died to lung cancer, miraculously her cells kept regenerating"
Didn’t even watch the video well enough to remember it was cervical cancer… it IS pretty simple there, bud, and you still failed.
We owe a lot to the Lacks family. Researchers stole her cells and profited from them. That’s all the justification you need for massive compensation.
Technically, Henrietta Lacks is still alive, as purple cancer lumps. I salute her.
which i find kinda creepy when you stop and think about it.
@@Wasp609 did you just say that you are creepy
@@v6790 lol i forgot to put the s.
Wait, so if we give this cell to a person that mean that person will still alive after he/she dead?
And people are still infecting her to see if she will die again
Thank you, Henrietta Lacks!
+Willem van de Beek Enough with the thank you's, more with the compensation of the family whose cells facilitated this research.
Aquamanic4 Every cent.
Aquamanic4 And the scientists/capitalist pharmaceutical dogs who stole her cells would not have made a cent without her cells.
Sergio Sanchez I think by experimentation you meant exploitation.
Aquamanic4 Taking her cells and using them for commercial purposes without her consent or compensation is theft. This killed her, and her family have nothing to show for it.
Scientist: Hey, who took the HeLa samples from the lab fridge?
Me feasting on some jelly:
@@redstrider6814 thank you, you can have mine
@@kaioto5699 why is this wholesome
@@moistcriticalstan876
Ok
Congrats ur immortal now
@@davengeii5903 ok where i can deez cells
I remember reading about Henrietta and her cells in college. It was so amazing. It was also kinda terrible to read about her cells being used for such amazing science without Henrietta ever consenting to her cells being used this way or her family ever being compensated. Can't remember if her family ever did get compensation, but I remember the book mentioning her family eventually going to court about it. It was nice to see this video mention the unethical history behind the science instead of just glossing it over as if Henrietta and her family never mattered.
Sorry if this sounds dickish, but sometimes the greater good of many, scratch that, the whole humankind, trumps the selfish wants/need of an individual.
If I'm the first immortal being on earth, sure I would run to avoid capture because I'm selfish, but I would understand why people chasing me and try to capture me, I wouldn't blame them.
But in this case she's already dead, cancer killed her. Arguing for the consent of cells of a dead human being and demanding payment or royalty is selfish at best, and gold digging at worst.
@@nightwinddemon Totally agree, that's basically putting your own wallet before those millions of lives.
@@nightwinddemon It's moreso acknowledgement than compensation, they kinda just swept everything that happened with her under the rug
@@erboch7124 they did hide what they was doing with her cells at the beginning and even experimented on her children, which is very bad I have to admit, but after the whole thing came to light, the name of Henrietta Lacks was everywhere, it was impossible to not hear about her cell line when you study anything biology in college.
Acknowledgement: checked.
They did wrong her children though, one time compensation for that, sure, but that's it imo.
@@nightwinddemon Yeah but its not a household name, that should be like a high school biology thing and not a college biology thing.
Well that was 4 and a half minutes of very very intriguing information.
Abhilash `Nox` Baruah If you want more than that you should read “The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks”
Fred Keys lol I have to read that for class this year
You mean 4 minutes and 26.2 seconds ?
@@sm1lt3 round the numbers
HeLa cells are immortal, but Hela is a goddess of death.
Huh.
HEnrietta LAcks = Hela, they're not talking about the goddess
@@user-kb3bm9zu1w YOU DON'T SAY
@@theshadowlifter XD
Bunnyz Entertainment r/whooosh
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The word "Hela" in Swedish means "to heal". What a coincidence.
Edit 5 years later:
Elon Musk = Elon = El On = Electricity On 🤯
Well darn-diggity dang
well HeLa is actually the abreviation to Herietha Lacks.
and she was a black Lady.
+LongJohn Vllasaliu Damn dude o_o Phenomenal.
Ironically, so does läka.
Huh! Interesting.
Glad someone finally explained the "immortal cancers" properly to me. Until now I thought that scientists all over the world were infinitely growing _unkillable_ blobs of cancer.
Look up the one around dogs! There's this one dog that's technically been alive through his cancer cells for >10,000 years!
@@dotsubmcdoodle2959 did the 8 people that liked your comment just like it because it sounded like an interesting concept? you will get no relevant results from "one around dog(s)". these people liked a nonsense comment before even seeing if it was true or not lmfao
@KULLED she's talking about cancerous dog cells. In English they teach about understood subjects. There is enough on the one around dogs that's why 8 people liked her comment
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor
CVTV is a transmissible pathogen whose DNA is descended from a single individual canine about 11k years ago.
I actually read the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and there's alot of info they aren't telling you here
@@Eee12388 i think what you said is already in the video, not just elaborated but we get the thought
Well the point of these videos is to make them simple and short so they can reach people that generally wouldn't be interested In this stuff so it makes sense that it misses some specific details or complex info
I found it odd how they thank her when she was not even asked. Yea thanks for lettings us steal your cells!
@@ritav793 But is it worth saving millions of lives? And plus, it was a tumor so it had to be taken out of her body right?
Agree Yan. I have not read the book but am aware of the ethics issues towards Henrietta and the manner in which the cells were harvested. Patients these days, beware of false imprisonment
How come we don't learn about Henrietta Lacks in school. Her mutated cells still exist today, that's incredible!
They don't teach it in school because nobody likes to talk about the societal contributions of black people other than the most popular ones.
I hate that they don't.
BlueBerryKing You'd be surprised
BlueBerryKing because i don't give a shit and how is this gonna help me in life ME NOT Another PERSON THAT A DONT EVEN FUCKING KNOW school is already shit why do u need to make it more shitty
vice king If you don't pay attention to school anyway, why do you care? What difference does it make?
What if Hella’s cell are trying to reconstruct themselves to re make Hella
That would be terrifying.
Hope so
I guess that when she was alive they (hela-cells) had been trying to do the opposite thing.
That would be one "hella" of a surprise
See what I did there?....
@@okboomer5274 ok zoomer
3:22 I love the effect of how instead of skeleton, you see the inner parts of a human cell. Bravo, people who worked on this animation!
Prolly cus it’s not a human body
I love it when people gives attention even the smallest of details
How have I never been taught this in my biology classes?
@Jesse Cimino samee
I wasn't taught either
Because this microbiology not biology 😂
@@ItsssElsa I learnt about microbiology in biology class at least since grade 11, and maybe earlier.
How have you not paid attention in biology class while ignoring your English teacher's crossover reading assignment of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
You're a terrible student.
Just wait until the whole universe is a massive purple blob...
Lol yes
oh yeah yeah
The Flood.
2:35.
so, grimace
I like how they gave credit to the patient.
yea it's stupid
Adam i don't agree. her body (she) is technically the one who invented this line of cells
it is not like she gave the cells on pupose. it is stupid to give credits to her.
But she's still the one who made them. There are a lot of things invented/discovered by accident (not that i can name some now)
if a give you a lemon then you make a lemonade, the best in the entire world you think is right to have credit from the lemonade ?
If there's an afterlife I hope she is happy in the knowledge that she has saved thousands, if not million, of lives
You can't say that, she's immortal
@@metal9076 huh
@@diakounknown1225 she technically is still alive
@@lanateam4523 huh
@@diakounknown1225 cells innit
The book about Henrietta Lacks --- THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot--made for fascinating reading.
+Steven Torrey In the days of Henrietta Lacks, cells were named by the first two letters of the first and last name of the patient--hence, HeLa cells. John Moore complained about cells derived from his spleen being called Mo. He thought this was dehumanizing. So now cells are given numbers instead of names. Yet, Henrietta Lacks herself achieves recognition and immortality by having the cells named directly after her--Henrietta Lacks--HeLa.
+Steven Torrey Also in the days of Henrietta Lacks (she died in 1951) the ethics re the taking of cells, the taking and disposal of body parts, and financial remuneration for any pharmaceutical cures from any medical research with the cell was far hazier than it is today. To say the family was denied 'financial recompense' as a result of pharmaceuticals derived from her cells suggests a level of intentional sinister that is just not there. Not even in a sense of 'oversight.' The safeguards in place today were simply not present in those days. And even today, once that biopsy leaves the body, once the limb leaves the body, the patient cannot claim it for his own; and there are a lot of health reasons for that. Like what is a person going to do with an 'appendix? Where does the patient keep it? And lots of other practical health considerations re diseased body parts. (Rebecca Skloot discussed this in her book, THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. And the Court has consistently sided with the medical profession regarding ownership of disposed body parts.)
Henrietta Lacks death seems mysterious. Think about it business wise, after making a discovery of her cells why need her, but her cells; therefore, she can't claim profits of her unique cells, she dies of cervical cancer is what they say. In my point of view, Lacks was deprived of life in exchange for financial wealth. It's just the new world, that's how corporations and private firms earn their wealth, off the back of others.
Steven Torrey so you are okay with the continual "co-opting" of the African American body for furthering of science and future endeavors to heal etc. I did not read the book (I plan to) but even I know that the Eurocentric mind WOULD see that there is nothing wrong with profiting off "black bodies" because it is disposable. Shame on you for your "lack" of sensitivity and your cavalier attitude toward savage thievery. The LEAST the scientists could have done (if not share profits) was let the woman know what they were doing.
You probobly think it was okay to use those Tuskeegee men to do syphilis experiments on cause they WERE considered 3/5ths human. Get outta here! People talk trash when its about "them folks" or "other", would you be so understanding and cavalier if it were YOUR family's DNA used to pioneer present modern day medicines, and your family didn't even get the respect of a scientists disclosure agreement! #FOHWTBS
Cristian Mercado Sorry, but that is conspiracy nonsense. She had cancer in the early 1950s and received the treatment that was standard at the time. Unfortunately, that couldn't prevent the cancer from metastasizing and she died within less than a year. I doubt researchers had figured out the value of the cells by then: they were initially donated to other labs and the discoveries mentioned in the video were made years or decades later.
Also, keep in mind that these were different times in terms of patient consent and on top of that she was African-American in a time before the civil rights era.
This sounds like the start to some science fiction movie where the HeLa cells just keep dividing and growing until they're like some super blob monster covering the world.
Finally someone who writes HeLa properly
Naah, not enough nutrients and oxygen
Gives of similar vibes to the yoghurt episode of love death robots, but darker
If you could control the form that they are dividing into though, to a normally operating and look... cell types, organs then whole body
Kinda reminds me of the Gray Goo apocalypse scenario
If used incorrectly, the earth will turn purple.
A Regular Potato LMAO
A Regular Potato Roflpops
Nothing Can Stop The Smoozenami Smoozepocalypse, all praise Lord Smozee or be consumed on his return!
A Regular Potato... with a bikini?!
Like this 2:35?
I actually go to a school named after her! What really sucks is that her family wasn’t just middle class-they were in poverty. Henriettas kids couldn’t even afford healthcare, but certain companys we’re making trillons of dollars.the doctors also A) never told her she would be infertial after the radiation treatment B) continually sent her back home even though she was in horrible pain C) never told her family she was dying-they all thought the doctors were still trying to cure her. I suggest to read “the immortal life of Henrietta lacks” by Rebecca skloot
She was going to be infertile anyway, I think, at that time.
"trillions of dollars" lol no
Interesting information.
+Ang badang I have the same feeling ahahahah
+Ang badang he's advertising that's why on all the popular vids
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky I'm up-voting so people can check you out.
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky
No offense to the scientists (well maybe a little)but this is stupid! If HeLa cells are unusual in the sense they will reproduce indefinitely and can survive on their own, why test them to substitute for results from normal cells, sure it's easy, but it CHANGES THE RESULTS! I mean there have to be other changes that are indistinguishable but we won't find any because all of the test cells are HeLa cells. Am I missing something?
besucse there close enough to normal cells that if it works on these then it might work on normal cells, and they do test on normal cells as well
When you realise Henrietta is technically still alive
(No, i do not actually believe she is still alive)
@@spiritofMongan Keep in mind its still her cells so technikly the OP is right
@@baguetteetcheese4665 well it’s her mutated cells so techinically no
@@mr.fishstick_yt9955 "well it's her..." you're saying what you're trying not to
@@Dact3 imagine those movies where they make like an identical twin of yourself but the personality is totally different. This is basically when Henrietta lacks cells and her cancer cells are
Henrietta Lacks's cells helped make Jonathan Salk famous when he used her çells to make the polio vaccine in 1953 amazing since Henrietta Lacks only died in 1951. A very skilled lab technician came back from a break and found Mrs Lacks cells had multiplied. After they found Mrs Lacks cells multiplied it seemed at will they have been used many times for medical treatments for humans. Much money has been made from Mrs Lacks cells. How ever her family and MRS Lacks is dead. No money was received by Leak family nor did they know of the research using her cells. Or that vaccines and cloning of cells was being done. So I am wondering if Mrs Lacks family has received any money so they can live above the poverty line and benefit from the funds being made from her immortall cells. Would someone write in case there has been any changes for the Leaks family. Or if Mrs Lewis cells were used to make THE ÇOVID19 VACCINE rather interesting science. Looking forward to comments.
When I was interning at NIH, an amazing group of scholars gave myself and a group of other students the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". I have markings and bookmarks all over this book just to make note of my favorite and most inspiring parts and even wrote a paper on it in university. I highly recommend this book to anyone! It doesn't matter your education level. It's just the most interesting book I've ever had. You will come to know and love the Lacks family and understand their side.
Yes!!! I got my copy at the NIH I’m in the middle of reading it now. I have diff emotions reading it shocked, amazed and sad.
Here’s a question, if her cells are “immortal” meaning they’ve been dividing for 70 years straight with no end in sight, do we know for sure that the dna of those cells hasn’t changed since ‘51? I mean, a serious issue with cell division that this video points out is that eventually errors creep into the code, so are HeLa cells immune codon errors as well? If that’s the case, my next question would be “is it because HeLa cells have so many sets of chromosomes, that they can self correct after each division?”
I mean 70 years, thats enough time that technically they aren't even her cells anymore...
I think they can produce their own chromosomes
I think they stated somewhere that they were always exact copies or something.
They've definitely mutated, the video even states hela cells have around 80 chromosomes.
I think it not even human cell anymore, it's have similiar dna of human but different species, it's another being maybe if the cell can be in human form and have consciousness we will have some thing like purple thanos? 😂
thats hela cool
Harvey Challinor get out.
Daisy Slusher lol no
Imma kms cuz of this comment
its a pun... HeLa
Genius
If you guys liked this video, I would recommend reading the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". I chose to read it for a prior AP Lang class and I loved it! The aquiration of the HeLa cell was a lot more shady than this video reveals. The book has interviews with her family and reveals their resulting hardships as well as the struggle of minorities to receive help within the medical field in Henrietta's time.
yes, I did read the boook. So strange that this video was recommended to me
i read that book to. i heard about HELA before the book but now i know so much more about it. HELA helped with a lot of things but its sad that they took her cells without asking or telling her family.
I hated the book, totally disturbing
@@leonardodtc1493 how
I’m reading it now
Let's talk about how her family never got any kind of settlement
Boys mutilated genitals are cultured for stem cells to produce collagen for vain women's cosmetics, and they don't receive any compensation either.
Gregory Malchuk if you’re referring to circumcision, foreskins are not used for cosmetics but rather as sources of replacement skin for burn patients.
@@teehee4096
It's used in both and its even more unethical. Organ farming and harvesting and profiteering need to get life imprisonment.
Why? They don't own cancer and they didn't do anything to deserve the money.
M T It’s made of her cells with her DNA, they do deserve settlement
I actually knew of this, if i’m not mistaken (they may go over this in the video) but she specifically stated she did not want her lab samples to be used past her death, i dont think she even wanted them to be studies to begin with. But Gey was too infatuated with the potential scientific discoveries, as right as he may be, Lacks specifically said she didnt want her cells to be used
Good thing nobody listened to her then. I can't imagine the amount of human suffering that boneheaded move would have brought into the world.
@@CedarHunt Ignoring peoples rights always serves in the reduction of human suffering.... But hey there's enough profit and a good PR spin on this, so let's all be idiots who support people doing whatever they want to whomever they want so long as they get results.
@@Meatbrawl do you drive an electric car?
@@Meatbrawl to be fair, this was in an era where you had the option to be unethical about it. Nowadays you would never go against a patient wishes no matter how much it would be of an advancement for us as society
Well.. There are times when you get scientific oppertunities that are just too important to not pursue. Yes, It's important to respect human rights and so on, but what if you have the potential cure for cancer right in front of you? Are you seriously just gonna give that up because some dude didn't want you to take a cell sample?
Thank you Mrs. Henrietta Lacks. We are forever grateful to you and your unique contribution to science and medical research.
Henrietta: "I wish for immortality.."
Genie : "your wish is my command.."
Henrietta: "I have an itching feeling that I forgot to mention some important details.."
Under rated command
Have fun being a clump of purple goo forever.
Itching quite literally
who's genie? the red haired girl from harry potter?
@@leandrogoethals6599 uhh a genie? Ever heard of Aladdin or literally any other mystical story lol
Moment of appreciation to the artist who drew all the art for this video
If you haven't I highly recommend reading 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' it's an amazing book talking about her family life, how scientists discovered the cells, and what her children have to say about her cells
Yes, that book is amazing. Highly recommend it to everyone who's watched this video
I am reading it right now. It needs to be a movie.
Did any of her kids had cancer?
did anyone else think that the measles, mumps, HIV, and Ebola Hela cells design looked cute?
+Natsuiro
The HIV design looks very familiar to me...
Ali Alwaily fuck you, they were kinda cute because whoever illustrated/animated this video has a cute drawing/animation style
Natsuiro me
Natsuiro The question is why though?
Natsuiro I wanna holler at Ebola. She 18??
Her family didn't get a dime, that is the biggest shame science has . Her cells saved the world but the scientist didn't care about her family. Thank you Queen Henrietta Lacks we are eternally grateful.
This is sorta creepy too....
+Abraham Animations like a scypt for horror movie.
+Anthony Ege Kopri If we survive WWIII, WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones
+TheProrokpl Straight outa sci-fi Horror Thriller Movie, Kinda like 28-weeks later
+Abraham Animations Hela is cancer immortal because you can't beat Hela because 82 specie of Hela who surviver like space, water, oil, hot, ecc... Hela is worth of that bear water (tardigrade). not just, 82 species of Hela kill you as you can't surviver like 1 year of horror.
+Andrea Gnatta ?
She’s the definition of a God Send. She’s the reason we have so much. Her existence brought us so much.
why do people dislike science videos? lol. they're not hurting anybody!
R Tee Yeah but religious people get offended
about what?
R Tee 122 people don't like black peoples
jake2003 and black people don't like white people
Monkey D Luffy, are YOU not forgetting that it is some people who do not accept science as an explaination over their beliefs, and not the overall religion? (which no individual can reprecent)
The disrespect in this comment section is honestly appalling. Henrietta isn't just a hero for "getting cancer". Her cells helped scientists discover the vaccine for polio, develop in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping. Without this woman's quickly replicating cells, we wouldn't know much about major diseases like Ebola and HIV. Henrietta deserves some recognition for what her cells have done. She didn't know about them, but they were hers and without them, we would not have advanced so quickly in medicine. What these doctors and scientists did to Henrietta was morally and ethically wrong. During her radiation treatments for cervical cancer, two cervical cell samples were removed without her consent. Her cells were sold to many scientists without her or her family's knowledge. No one buying or selling her cells in the beginning even knew who she was! Johns Hopkins claims that there was never any buying or selling of her cells, but in the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Rebecca Skloot does in depth investigating on the entire case. If this was done in this day and age, huge repercussions would have been implemented. Although it is hard to understand that some people have no interest in donating their cells or organs to science, there are many people who would not consent to it. It is important to respect these people's decisions and not ask "what kind of person would you be if you declined?". No one knows what Henrietta's wishes would have been on this topic, so it is unfair for everyone to say that her lack of consent doesn't matter. Also, no one knew that her cells would revolutionize medicine until AFTER they were wrongfully taken from her. So the fact that they did change medicine does not justify the action of stealing her cells.
If she never went to that hospital, they never would have had her cells in the first place... Her cells were the only ones that lived long enough to do research on at that point in time. If her cells didn't replicate as quickly as they did, they would have had nothing to research. Also they stole her cells while she was still alive... Please do a fact check before making invalid claims. She didn't "just die" and then have her cells taken by scientists. She was ALIVE. Therefore, she was not just a corpse that "no one gives a shit about". I hope you aren't learning about this for school because if you are, you have the facts all wrong.
Zastavan fuck those scientists who STOLE her cells for their own personal gain. She did not consent to the donation of her cells and they basically gave a big middle finger to her family. It was highly unethical and they are still profiting off of her today, decades after her death. She didn't even get that option to be "another corpse no one gave a dn about" because they took that from her. And while they lay comfy in bed at night because they are profitting from her, her family struggles to feed themselves and get healthcare, which is quite ironic.
Zastavan Without ethics we have people don't whatever the fuck they want, case and point. They did good work of the cells of a woman who they didn't notify they were taking cells from. And they are profitting from cells of a woman all the while ignoring the ethics and guidlines broken to get to where we are in the first place. I'm not callubg you out your name, don't call me out of mine. We are not 3 and we have other ways of communicating other than name calling
Zastavan That doesn't mean you can't call them out. That doesn't mean you don't speak out when they are wrong. They control you if you let them. I went to Johns Hopkins and I still called them out on bullshit while I was attending. Wrong is wrong.
Rachel
You were right at first... but I would like to point out that any scientist who got their hands on an immortal line of human cells would have known that it would be incredibly useful in lab tests and disease research. The man who did get his hands on it wouldn't have sent it to other scientific labs if he did not expect it to be useful.
_ALSO,_ the thing you mentioned about her tumor being taken without her consent? Well now it's not inside of you trying to kill you! Isn't that better than if we just left it in and let it take it's course?
I'm just imagining how that conversation would go:
Henrietta: Did you... take two of my tumors?
Doctor: Yes, why?
Henrietta: *WITHOUT MY CONSENT!?!?*
Doctor: We were just doing our jo-
Henrietta: *_NO!_* Put it back in! It's my cancer and you can take it out when I ask you to.
I'm currently procrastinating
orla watson Isn't that the only reason to watch TedEd, to procrastinate while learning? 😂
lol this is actually my studying, we have an essay to write about the ethical complications of hela cells
Inflicting pain on others is my hobby.
orla watson ah, I see you are a man of culture as well
#metoo
We used HeLa cells during animal cellbiology class in university (bsc biology) by now it is kind of a standard cell line to work with. We used them for cellmigration Experiments That are meant to resemble wound healing processes. Cheers to her for advancing our knowledge by such a magnitude
And let's also remember that the reason the doctor who discovered this didn't tell her or ask consent from her family was because she was an African American woman living in the most segragated times of America. A big thak you to Henrietta Lacks!
ッLauve thak you. Clap clap clap. And technically her tumor was to thank not her herself because she really didn’t do anything to make the tumor.
thak you henrietta
To be fair, imagine how many millions of people would have died otherwise if her family had said no.
@@88_TROUBLE_88 Yeah but people need to be reminded so it doesn't happen again.
@@_o_W_O_ and risk someone with a potential cure to say no?
Queen Elizabeth: finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
It's a shame the human race will have died out before their battle ends
I think she gets organ transplants
Mirtha Legrand: Heh... amateurs...
Now I’m just imagining the queen with a sword and traditional armour taking stance
@@imnotconsistent4504 great. Now I have that image in my head, thank you.
"why do we die of old age"
"we would have cancer otherwise"
"why do Wales, that have so many Cell to replicate, not suffer from cancer?"
@@stefanomartinelli7344
lol
@David Meyer
Yes, that Is why I made the comment. It was a joke of some sort.
Quick random question, whales have a diet Rich of fatty acids (=fat)?
@@stefanomartinelli7344 maybe planktons or crabs
This is actually the correct answer. Without the old dying before being a drain on the population there won't be enough resource to raise the healthy youth. Evolution has made a compromise.
The funny thing is, my class and I are reading about her right now, so this will be very useful to have!
So Hela is technically the first legit (X-men levels) mutant?
sounds about right yea
No more like, the reason why a lot of people is still alive today.
No, but the tumor that killed her is
Fedestroyer Rubio dead you mean
i think
Does that mean technically she's immortal? I mean her brain is gone but these cells, part of her, keep going...
Pie A La Mode yeah, technically she's still alive, just not aware of it.
I'd say that she is only symbolically alive through the cells. It's like saying you are living in another body if you donate a kidney or blood. It's just a matter of belief I guess.
Espen Sales true. it's more of a philosophical topic than a scientific one.
***** I wouldn't mind ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Z.M creepy
Doesn't that mean that she is still there.
and soon with her cell spread all over the world, global domination is at her palm!
Yeah, but she is just cancer, in the most literall way.
Johnny Yoo Not really. Her brain is gone, thus is she.
cell is alive you know, we (hypothethically) could revive her using her cells.
Hanif Ong She would have the mental capacity of a newborn.
She was a gift and still is
Henrietta Lacks was the Only person on the world to have this cell?
The cells were extracted at a very late stage of cancer,
it is unlikely that she was the only patient to have the cells.
Though she is the first to have those cells studied.
+boy638 Unlikeley. But, she was the first one, where this cells were recorded and could be extracted.
So, if you have what you need, why spend further energy in the search for similar things as you know, you will find it?
The cells are "immortal", so they will not cease to exist. She just had a very basic form of cancer, comparable to everyone having Lemonade or Icetea while you having distilled Water as drink.
Indeed, the immortality is the problem in our genetic construction plan - we need to be mortal, or we would die by cancer before even reach the 6th Birthday. Mortality is the motor of our evolution, allowing us to adapt and survive - we can even alter our attributes to adapt to our enviroment within 20 Years by just living in that enviroment - if we were immortal, we need to reproduce for that and even then it woiuld be unlikeley that some mutation takes root, as the Genes were stable - so, adaption would take about (estimated) 120-1200 Years, as genetic adaption only happens by reproduction.
It were not her normal cells, it was the mutation of it, the cancer, who bears the possibility of immortality - as every cancer can do at a small possibility.
+boy638 She was a mutant
+Dantick09 If she were a mutant, it would have been from the sex cells in one of her parents. She was no more a mutant than any other cancer victim. The mutation happened only in her cancer cells. And because on that cancer, many lives were save and in a way, she is still alive today.
Kimiko Tekuno Depends. Basically, you are true, but on the other hand, we are all mutants, having inactive potential for some mutaton - this is why some people have keen sight and others need glasses. And both of them could be the "mutant".
People which are getting very old while doing unhealthy stuff have mostly some genetic advantage like a better resistance against toxics or very strong DNA very resistant against damage.
So, if Danticks thought, even if just a joke, can be true or not - and that can be solved by taking a closer look at this circumstances in her family tree - either there is some predisposition towards getting old or there is a predisposition towards the opposite, die young but having a astonishingly rate of healing while alive. This mostly is a rezessive Gene, so we need to take a look at her grandmother and cousins and nephews.
Indeed, the question about the Nature of this Mutation was one of my first thoughts I was very interested in as I saw this.
Hurray for HeLa cells!
+NerdSync We meet again awesome channel
Not to hate but NerdSync just basically said Yay cancer!(if you don't believe me listen to the video closer)
so how did the transaction of the cells go
"Hey you want some cancer cells?"
"why would I want that?"
"Don't worry, they're immortal"
"OKAY LETS HAVE 'EM"
No the doctors took her cells without her even knowing it. It's like when they ask for maybe a blood test or something. But they took some of her tissue without her consent. And it's a shame her family got not even a penny out of it even though HeLa cells cured so many diseases and helped so many people and just mankind in general.
@*xai*
So, they were still her cells. Cancer is still your cells, cells that won't turn off but they're still your cells.
@@justathought973 ...Don't people seek treatment specifically to have their tumors removed?
when i was in 5th grade i met her grandson when he came to fix our school computers. it was a cool experience because you never think something like that could be experienced in a baltimore public school. that was abt 6 years ago but definitely was something memorable. (edit: great grandson i’m pretty sure*)
It is disappointing to see all the comments basically saying "thank her for what?" I guess if these people donated all their money to science, they should expect to NOT get a thank you. I mean why? All they contributed is money.
These folks should really read "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. They should also read how these companies and scientists are suing each other for take on the money pot but for some reason people think that the actual person who scientists get the cell from shouldn't get anything.
Totally agree with you here! It makes me sick that people are really thinking this way..
btw that book is sooo good!
The book does include that, such as other examples of this and many legal cases and the laws which resulted or did not pan out and how sometimes the scientist where allowed to continue certain actions or not.
As long as Science advance forward I don't care about being thanked. You have to understand what a donation means. I don't donate to get praises or "thanks". I donate because I feel like it is the right thing to do.
Honestly any decent human being should be proud that cells from their own bodies are being use to save lives, its like giving blood you never know when what you give away can save you or a loved one or even advance treatment to save a friend of your kids someday.
Jimmy Win It's not like Henrietta willingly donated though.
Thank you, henrietta!
So we got the benefit of living from a person that is dying (died) from cancer.
William Xu pretty much
William Xu
AN EXTREMELY DURABLE CERVICAL CANCER........TO ACCURATE........
William Xu Yeah.. Tbh though it's better than hearing about lab rat tests
isnt that cool? 😆
Ok well she was going to die from her late stage cervical cancer, so she might as well help humanity.
I feel this video could have had more emphasis on how they did all this without Hentrietta's permission and her family didn't know about it for years.
While I salute her contribution to science, it is a good example of how the rights of individuals, especially poc, have traditionally been violated in the pursuit of research.
Half the video is literally about that.
@@theboxygenie not really, they more talked about the significance of the cells themselves.
Wait till you hear about how advances in gynecologic surgery were due to experiments on slaves.
This video is talking about Henrietta's cells not Henrietta. If you want things about rights and sensitive topics like that you can find another video.
Well she is dead so might be a bit hard...
This is interesting. What I've learned about cells and cancer in general, follows along what the narrator told us; natural cells have a certain lifespan and follow a specific replication code that causes them to Start and Stop when needed. Cancer cells don't follow these replication codes, and continue to replicate themselves despite the fact they still receive those commands to stop. Cancer is especially difficult to get rid of, because inside a cluster is a bunch of different types of cancer, so one method of treatment would only destroy a fraction, allowing the rest to continue replicating. Because cancer cells are stuck in the Replication phase, they don't really die!
Yes, cancer bypasses G1,G2 and M phases
So what did you do with your life?
Oh, I became technically immortal and am the sole reason many vaccines and many scientific studies exist. What about you?
I...
I’m a janitor
Ian Layman without her consent and make money with her cells and don’t give nothing to her family... the industry make so much money with Henrietta cells if her family receive the money for the using of cells her family will be the most richer family in that world
also janitor work is commendable
@@distraughtdistraight6415 seriously the stuff they have to do everyday, clean up a place that you don't know what older or younger children did to, and the fact that they have to clean so much too
@@afist5595 Agreed. Janitors are very important. In the micro world, if there weren't cleaning processes life would either not exist or be absolutely horrifying.
More like what you do with your death-
me: eating grape jelly
the other scientists realizing there's missing HeLa samples:
You’re a scientist?
@@burntpasta3240 it was a joke
UH OH
Again
@@cactiman6593 So was their comment, a set up for another joke too. Too bad nobody played along with it.
Her book is mad depressing. I read it in middle school and it is still with me to this day
Henrietta lacks probably could have provided a fortunes worth of scientific discoveries if her case was handled correctly.
true that. Thats really what should be learned here xd
Which it was! Good job, humanity, you actually did one damn thing right for once.
Don't you think her permission should g
have been given?
Gogo Louie Yes of course it should have been obtained. However at the time, it was common not to obtain consent from patients for any research. It want until nearly a decade later when the NIH decided to begin using Ethics committees for granting research funding. This came off the back of research they conducted showing that very few of the labs they funded, had bothered to gain consent.
It was handled correctly except for the fact that they didn’t tell her family or her that they took her cells.
I wish this was taught in Indian schools' curriculum. When I was in high school, I was taught about basic functions of cells, the impact on cures and causes of various diseases but how they came to be in effect, it was definitely not included. I don't know about now, but in my time, this was something my high school science subject did not cover. I really wasn't aware about Henrietta Lacks until in my late 20s. I wish this was percolated more in high school science books and not surppressed. Nobel winners in science get immense recognition for discoveries in scientific field but someone like Henrietta should be included too in highest honour. I am glad that Ted Education made this video on her and I hope that Rebecca Skloot's beautiful description about HeLa cells and Henrietta's life in her book, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' reaches to many more globally.
When you were high school, you couldn’t understand it. It’s not suppressed, the high school curriculum gives you necessary basic information to understand things about your surroundings. It’s not actively inhibiting you from finding it out. I guarantee modern day high schools have technology in the building that can give access to this. If it was being suppressed, there’d be an active effort to hide it.
I really enjoyed the art in this video. The different viruses being represented as some abstract characters felt like a cool art project or exhibit and now I want more
You want more viruses?
@@karlhans6678 I think she does and that is quite terrifying.
My biology teacher discussed this and I remember the night of that day, before going to sleep, I thanked Henrietta Lacks. 💖
No, you should thank the researchers who actually were able to utilize them. Not someone who just had cancer and was an unlikely find.
hug the busdriver
George gey
Wow he must have been made fun of as a kid
Seems to easy his local brutes probably passed him up because of that
It meant happy in his day
@@joshmuz9018 makes me think why the world made up the different meaning
It’s pronounced guy
Its actually pronouned guy
Does this mean we can make life thrive on other planets? By letting the Hela cells duplicate there?
Justin Y's Stand
So you ARE everywhere! Keep commenting, you’ll grow.
Its cancer tho
@@safir2241 just like cancer
We can make cancer thrive on other planets 😉👌
If you want Mars to be known as the purple cancer planet yes
Deadpool has HeLa cells.
Jacob Moss Def.
HeLa is Deadpool ^^
no in the cervix
Jacob Moss or tumors
No Dp Cells
Thank you Henrietta Lacks. You saved so many people.
Would you live an immortal life as a non-feeling mutated cancer cells or enjoy 80 years of good life and feel the world for what it is?
@@thememoryfish same bro
now all we have to do is weaponize it.
HeLa supersoldiers anyone?
What if I get the immortal cancer cells at the end of 80 years
The non-feeling part is where I'd stop. I would personally want to actually know that I'm helping people by being the immortal lump of purple flesh I am.
The thing is she's alive but not in the way we know as consciousness. Just cells with no brain.
Much like Trump and Boris.
And now she has a school named after her, and she's in the hall of fame. I hope this honors our ancestor, so she may rest in peace.
"exspecially" in a TED video... 2:16.
+The Rad Channel haha, something that non-native like me wouldn't notice
Haha :D
+The Rad Channel I'll take that over the the guy who says "bolth".
+The Rad Channel Haha even as a non-native I noticed and cringed. xD
Seeing your comment made me jump to that part
Thank you Henrietta lacks. You don't lack anything
Hela: “I don’t feel so good”
The same Hela: “Aw sh!te, here we go again”
Hela:*multiples*
AstroSen what
@@torchuga Avengers Endgame and Gta san andreas.
Haha hilarious!
Wha- Wha- Wha- Wha- Wha
( Jojo reference )
Thanks, Henrietta Lacks and all the scientists involved in making these discoveries!
you could say.....
Henrietta lacks mortal cells
im not sorry
Beautiful👏
That one hurt me.
But it was clever.
Cool Kuy 🖕
;(
It's incredibly to know that a tiny sample of a human cell can bring so much knowledge and advancements to us !!!! I'm impressed, thanks HeLa !!!
I saw the title and im like I JUST READ THE BOOK ABOUT HENRIETTA LACKS
Normal cell:lvl 1 crook
HeLa: lvl 100 mafia boss
Cos that’s how mafia works
50% of comments "omg it was so wrong that they didn't pay her for this blah blah blah"
other 50% "I don't understand science and think that this will be able to make me immortal"
B-b-but you could just directly inject her cells into your veins and that would be instant immortality! It's not like it's possible for humans to reject other humans cells. Nor is cancer in anyway considered uncontrollable cell division.
-.-. .- -. .----. - / .-- .- .. - / ..-. --- .-. / .--. . --- .--. .-.. . / - --- / .. --. -. --- .-. . / - .... . / ... .- .-. -.-. .- ... --
and some are just mentioning deadpools
Dust ok then try putting blood a to a b type
DzrianFuryz they were being sarcastic
Umm "they"? So that also refered to the guy who said some people mentioning deadpools is being sarcastic?..cuz it is true....
I learned about HeLa cells in my 9th grade Biology class. Kickass tbh. Feel for the lady's family. They should literally just.. be given heaps of money as compensation because of the immortal descendent that has immeasurably changed medicine.
It's crazy seeing these racists that think this woman doesn't deserve to be acknowledged
Hela cells are like the Hashirama cells of the real world, where they're used for basically everything
Selenbean cant wait to see the real madara :v
Shut up weeb
@@ez-cg8zf omg, chill I was just making a reference. No need to attack me 😅
Selenbean i feel bad now, have a good day
Dude maybe there is already a Madara? 🤔
For those that are saying it's potentially problematic, I'd like to state that if I ever get cancer and they remove it, they can do whatever they want with it. If it helps advance science, even better.
But see, you're not Henrietta. I completely agree with you that this is a worthwhile cause, but the fact that her family wasn't told for years that her cells were being shipped around the world and experimented on isn't right.
Just my two cents.
+14s0cc3r14 Saving us from the polio epidemic is a small price to pay for losing a chunk of cancer...
"The doctors did not remove her tumor"
Who did? Did her family just take a butter knife and slice it off??
The hospital needs to test the tumor by growing it. This one grew weird so the doctor asked other doctors, who asked other scientists. Before long, everyone was holding it.
Jonas Salk was a White American I don't know why they coloured him that way @ 2:58
she protecc
she attacc
but most importantly she lakk
*lacc
stapp
Prolacctin
Thats why the puplic need flamethrowers
And she multipliedd
I think it's INSANE to imagine that Henrietta Lacks died without knowing how much of an impact she would have on modern medicine... unbelievable.
2:01 smoothest moonwalk ever.
lol
read about this some years ago. imagine a part of you outliving you then literally getting around the globe and beyond
Guys, you are missing the big question here. is deadpool possible then??
+-Wish- oh look, a guy who is randomly pissed without any reason whatsoever. such a rare species to see these days. are you lost, your poor little thing? aaaw...
+Sena Chandrahera ROTFL good one =)
***** oh wow you do take this seriously. yes i do presume you are pissed from the term "shut the fuck up". like, saying "shut up" sounds more angry than "be quiet" isnt it. and add the word "fuck" which means you are emphasizig the "shut up", hence i presume you are pissed.
second, this is just a fanboying joke-comment, excited on the release of the deadpool movie in 3 days. and the relation of it, is the fact that the maker of deadpool makes the character to be IMMORTAL and also has terminal CANCER. the cancer keeps MULTIPLYING hence he is immortal. see how it relates with HeLa ? or are you just that serious and dense all the time?
i might be explaining to some internet hermit who doesn't really know well on the deadpool hype-train, or maybe you are just trolling and you got me lol. why so serious?
People are stupid...
+Sena Chandrahera Unless you count having cancer as being deadpool, no, because those immortal cells are cancer cells.
1:20 the very first immortal human cell line
GOOSEBUMPS
I just finished reading "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot!
+Jessica Budiasa Great read!
Meadow Greene Yes it is!
NERD(lol just kidding it's a great book)
There was a lot of controversy over these because Henrietta’s family never got any credit for the unintentional contribution she gave medical science (partially because they were called “Helen Lane” cells).
The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is my favorite book and is the most easy reading and interesting non-fiction book I have ever read. I would recommend this book to anyone! (I don’t even like reading no -fiction; that’s how good it is)
I read the title as "The Immoral Cells of Henrietta Lacks". Lmao.
I mean they were used in morally questionable ways
The videos from TED-Ed have made me realise that so many people are never talked about, despite their incredible importance in the world.
Reminds me of the dog cancer.
Able to survive in other dogs. Despite the dog being long dead thousands of years ago.