Immortal Cells Turn 96
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The world has a lot to thank Henrietta Lacks for, and yet many do not know what she has contributed. From helping to create the polio vaccine to the study of radiation, Henrietta and her HeLa cells have changed the world.
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That's a hela lot of cells
See your way out
i want to die
Dammnit beat me to it
From the wiki about her cells, scientists have grown over 20 tons of her cells, that's quite a tumor.
+Sgt Killsington lol
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lachs is one of the finest works of non-fiction I've ever read.
YESSS I was going to say this. everyone go read this book.
lacks* but I agree
+Athena Nguyen Doh!
Is it just me or does "HeLa" also sound like a really good science fiction horror video game title?
+Seph Imaru Sounds like a good sci-fi something!
Everyone should read "The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks". Her cells were lifesavers for a lot of people , but her family never got compensation for it until that book was written. And soon, it will be made into a movie for HBO.
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how the hell do you make an entire show about this? at most id expect a hour and 45 minute documentary
I read dat shit
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This is like the superhero origin story of amazing scientific cancer cells. "These ordinary cells came into contact with a mutated section of HPV DNA. From thence, a hero was born..."
Lmao dude
Who knew being sexually promiscuous could turn you into a super hero.
+Turk Sandwich
There's a comic book about a couple who pause time by having sex. No joke.
+FuckMotheringVampire DC doesn't use cool creation stories like that.
dedpol has cancer and hey is immortal
HeLa cells are hella cool!
I'll walk myself out...
I got HeLa cells
i'll go too...
what the HeLa??!!...
I'll go join you for a walk too.
no, you can take a run. The rest can walk.
Mr.FuzzyCow I rather ride on a cow :T
gimme ur ring
Thank you Henrietta Lacks, you will always live on in our thoughts and laboratories.
She becomes tsukumogami this year
Henrietta Lacks immortal cells. Immortal cells are HeLa cool.
Funny thing is she actually did have immortal cells.
No. I would not have guessed.
I see what you did there... you are really *pun*ishing us today, aren't you?
Vernon682 the issue with the immortal cells is that they are prone to cancer causing mutations, and funny that she died of cancer
Happy birthday, Henrietta. You have helped further humanity (possibly more than any other individual human ever) more than you could probably have even imagined.
And I cannot thank you enough for it.
She is gonna be 100 soon!! I really really hope Sci Show post an update on this for her hundredth anniversary.
And she didn't even know how much she helped :(
R.I.P
Finally! I've been waiting for you guys to do a video on Hela cell for forever.
As one of the biological students who have cultured HeLa cells during their education, I thank Henrietta Lacks.
how special are these cells
HeLa
Hahaha
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Thank you Rebecca Skloot, for your wonderful depiction of the life of Henrietta, her family and of course her immortal cells.
Now is almost 100 years for her.... i really hope her cells save us from corona in this century😓
Bruh
They’ve actually helped with the vaccine ☺️
She is the largest person that has ever lived... in separate facilities around the world
Spooky
Henrietta Lacks, The only person to catch everything ever.
she will live on forever in science and in literal sense
my mother in law is an anatomical pathologist and uses HeLa cells in her research. i've even looked at them under a microsocope
The video isn't yet done,
Scroll back up.
You're not the boss of me!
On mobile devices you can watch the video while scrolling through the comments.
4:41 is the end, right?
You win
It was an ad.
Thank you SO much for talking about Henrietta Lacks, SciShow! Really glad to see that more are being educated about her!
_you learn about her in biology in both highschool and college/university_
As long as you don't have a seriously outdated class
how many cells? HeLa cells
hella 😂
hella 😂
100 now
101
Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!
Thank you for acknowledging how Henrietta Lacks has shaped modern science. Few people know her story and just how important she has been in extending the average human lifespan.
Now have her cells duplicated enough to make a whole new, cancerous Henrietta?
Everyone should thank Henrietta, if it wasn't for her and her cells we wouldn't have a lot of things that we do now days! A very good read about Henrietta's story and her family is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I read it a few years ago when my sister was going through cancer treatments and made her read it. Very informative!
Lacks died of cancer 65 years ago, but her cells - taken without her knowledge or consent - live on....
So much for the Hippocratic oath.....
+pnkflyd66 Do no harm? I mean, tissue samples generally are harmless procedures here...
there's nothing in the Hippocratic oath about informed consent, or even consent at all. Privacy, yes. and maybe there are things that consent could flow from, but it's not at all clear in that way.
+pnkflyd66 what's your point?
Meeko1010100112
I just went and looked it up, and I was surprised to find that it was much longer than I imagined, and neither the classical version, nor the modern version contain that phrase.
That is an amazing story! I always thought something similar must have happened with the black plaugue. Apparently the survivors noted that children only had 24 teeth as their first set whereas before they had a full set of baby teeth. Now that is a major biological event that happened world wide. Which implies that the plaque reached every corner of the world. Also in the first years after the plaque,there were an uncommon amount of twin and triplet births. I hypothesize that human biology can be altered by a foriegn agent such as a virus and actually take an evolutionary leap in response. This would be similar to what happened with the HeLa cells. I imagine that in the future we will be able to combat cancer and disease by actually gene editing,reintruducing a mutation which culls or benevolently alters a rather agressive cancer,or virus. I also imagine we are not very far away from finding a way to do this. Also, the HeLa cells and their longevity might be a clue to anti ageing cells in our own bodies. Very fascinating!
And she died the most gruesome death imaginable with these cells within her whole body. The pain must have been unimaginable. But she never showed until she couldnt any longer. THAT I call a strong woman!
i've grown some of those exact cells :) microbiology/biochemistry undergrad at glasgow university in scotand. tons of universities and colleges have samples of these cells
Thank you Henrietta
This is hilarious that I found this video. For my summer reading I had to read the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot and it's all about the HeLa cells and what Henrietta went through. About what her family went through. It's basically a biography about Henrietta. It's pretty interesting, I think you guys would like it.
Gotta love how scientists praise everything these cells have done to advance research, yet it's largely dismissed that the cells were taken without Lacks' consent, she died of her cancer, and her family has never been compensated. And it took until 2013 for a single group of researches to ask Lacks' family for permission to do anything related to their predecessor? Whether informed consent was a thing at the time the cells were taken or not, there needs to be more attention paid to the family of the poor farmer who died poor while the scientific and medical community profited off of her body.
Nice video. I wish you would have mentioned how Henrietta Lacks' family received almost none of the benefits of this research.
WHAT... in the cool Immortal Human HeLa Cells??!¡! ♡ :) Rest In Peace/Rest In Paradise, beloved Mrs. Henrietta "Immortal" Lacks.
Cancer... the key to immortality
It works for Deadpool........l but Wolverine ~kinda~ helped him.
thats why i watch cringe videos to live forever
yup.
All we need to figure out is how to make cells immortal and NOT become cancerous at the same time, and we basically cannot die.
It’s y’all hating on her for me! Like she didn’t do anything physically but her cells helped science. I don’t see why y’all got to complain about everything. 🙄 Thank you HeLa 🙌🏾❤️❤️
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HENRIETTA LACKS !!!!!!! HURAY !!!!! HURAY !!!!!!!!!! , it was astounding to me that she was african american and how some people are a****les to the ones who cured them out of polio and uncountable quagmires , i say in there place , THANK YOU HENRIETTA LACKS !!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTH DAY !!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU !!!!!!!!!
Well this video came full circle
How does Tetris Syndrome work? What does it mean about my gaming habits, and why does it happen to humans?
upvoted.
although I can imagine the answer. has to do with sorting out memory during sleep. But we dont know for sure.
***** No. Tetris. Its a completely different thing.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lachs is a MUST read!!!!!!!!!
Black women out here saving lives!
You mean without the intention of doing so?
We should all thank Henrietta, her and her families loss was all the worlds gain. One live lost for so many saved. Why doesn't she have a statue so everyone can remember what she gave to us all, even if she did not know it.
There's a song called "Henrietta" by Yeasayer about HeLa cells. Beyond the amazing melodies, the song explores the dark existentialism of immortality. Everyone should check it out and enjoy!
Jesus, I wish my Bio teacher told me about this XD
I read about this in my English class.
English class, of all classes
Who are you talking to? Were you texting your friend Jesus and sent it here by mistake?
+JanetStarChild I was waiting for his reply. Boy, he sent his reply to this channel.
It's Colorado's birthday today too! Any natives here? Rep your state!
No
+FuckMotheringVampire and legal weed babaayy
Also it's very pretty
oh shit I was just thinking about these cells the other day. I couldn't remember the name of them
Amazing how such a small piece of tissue can go on to save so many lives.
That's a nice white and gold shirt.
Lol
No
Don't you dare
Henrietta Lacks: HeLa from the other side~
😁
So these cells have been used to HeLa lot of people?
Muzik Bike that was a genuinely good pun.
That is amazing, I never heard of this - thank you so much!
Others have mentioned it, but I'm going to post it outright. Anyone who wants to learn more about Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells that were taken from her, read "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. It is an amazing book about a woman so criminally under-acknowledged because, without her, we all probably wouldn't be here today. The book also looks like the experiences and history of the Lacks family, their search for their missing little sister, and what has been going on around the creation of experimental cell lines, not to mention whether or not a person's cells can actually be copyrighted and owned by a company. Every needs to read the book because Henrietta Lacks deserves to be seen as the hero she is.
Ethan and HeLa
XD
h3h3
"hit the like button to LOCK IN your answer"
In 8th grade gifted, we learned about HeLa cells. We read a book, filled out a worksheet, and watched a documentary which looked like it had been made a while back.
and i learned about it in 4 minutes ☺
+Rellz D +
+Rellz D Except she learned more
So if we can cure cancer someday, we might just be immortal, as in no limited cell regeneration . All these mind boggling questions is what scientist live for.
Human immortality with oncoherpes
This is fascinating. Studied her story in college.
This incurs an interesting discussing. If her cells are still alive and they still multiply, is Henrietta Lacks dead?
Yes
Brain-dead (which is what people consider dead)? Yes. Completely dead? Nope.
Yes, for whats not dying there is mutated to shreds/cancer cells, no relation to you/the source body.
In short, yes. She's already dead, and the immortal would've been dead too if the scientist doesn't feed and support them.
Technically any cell contains the instructions to completely clone you, but her are probably corrupted beyond recovery.
Thank You Nice Lady
Now that we do have ethics in science, have the Lacks family ever been compensated for the harvesting and commercialization of her DNA? I would have liked for you to address this issue in more detail.
Why should the family be compensated? Their family member died of cancer and was harvested for tissue. Why do they deserve money for that?
According to a comment, there was a book written, called "The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks", that acted as the catalyst to getting her family and Henrietta recognition and compensation. They are apparently making a movie out of it.
Her cells are being used for research, they're not selling them to rebels in the middle east.
г-н зонт You're missing my point. They used her DNA without her permission. And have made money off it. NOW she is being recognized, but if a corporation takes something from you and benefits from it, you are entitled to your day in court.
Would anyone honestly refuse to give up a _removed cancerous tumor_ to be used for _scientific research to save lives_?
Their intentions are not to "make money off her cells" but to _save fucking lives_. Yours included.
In the end, all she did was have cancer. But that doesn't mean she's _not_ a hero in at least _some_ way.
But just because you're related to a hero, doesn't mean your relatives deserve praise as well.
scientists: genotype your cell lines. hela cells are incredibly invasive.
Good advice for the 1950s. Too late now. Even mycoplasma come up in all sequences.
strange how i started listening to the audiobook about her and then this video comes out. perfect timing!!!
HeLa cells are now 100
This woman deserves a freaking holiday named after her, at least. August 1st, Henrietta Lacks day!
Would have been a good opportunity to talk about how her family wasn't informed until decades after the fact. And that for years most scientists didn't know she was the source of the original cells and the main reason this knowledge is more widespread now is thanks to another woman doing almost a decade of research on her and her family and the scientists who took the samples. Also that she was black and John Hopkins had a terrible track record with consent specifically with black women. I'm just pretty uncomfortable with how lack of consent was brushed off as not standard. It's a really big deal. Yes HeLa cells are really neat and have lead to awesome changes in science but I think that needs to be grounded at least touching on the racism, sexism, and elitism that went into a white male doctor feeling entitled to just take a piece of her and do what he pleased with it.
BLURRRRRRR WHITE MALEZZZZ
Henrietta's family also were robbed of monetary gains. If I remember correctly one of her family members died of a disease in which her cells created a cure but couldn't afford treatment
I would love this legacy
Henrietta Lacks, we thank you for your contribution.
Why not study it to learn how to make our cell immortal?
TechPimp
The thing is, it is hard to know why it is immortal, in fact, no one knows why is this happening. Im not sure if somebody made a study for that, but I mean why would people make that assumption that we dont know if no one tried it before right?.
not a scientist here but if you have immortal cells that continue to divide seemingly forever, wouldn't you become a big mass of growing flesh and bone that wont ever die? also the cells are cancerous, so that sucks
They did and they found out why the cells keep persisting, the problem, it causes cancer.
because Hela cells are cancer cells.
So why you could make a few of your cells divide forever, you would be paying alot of money to give yourself cancer.
Most cancer cells are immortal in a sense as they keep dividing endlessly, If you want Immortal cells, get cancer. Immortality != immortal cells, that would only cause cancer. Immortality for humans would need lots of specialized healthy immortal cells.
wonder what a combo of stem cells and HeLa cells would achieve
I read the book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" and was floored. According to the book, the family still is upset about the cells being taken without permission and I agree. But, regardless, they have saved so many lives. Because of her cells, my parents were vaccinated against polio and because of this I did not need a vaccine. Happy Birthday Henrietta and THANK YOU!
how about thanking all the people who have done the research - she died like billions of others - if there had not been any of the people did research - she would have been another death
u kno it bb
...but if it hadn´t been for her extra-special cells, they wouldn´t have had anything to work with for a long time. Also: she wasn´t asked, while the researchers were doing a job they wanted to do and were likely paid for.
i was born 75 years after her. now im 21. *pours out some of my legally bought drink
Thank you mrs. Lacks!
Was any of the billions of dollars made off these cells given to the Lack's family?
No money is made off of these cells. It's a phenomena in biology that has been studied, not some consumer product. Also that family is not entitled to any money because she didn't patent these cancer cells and nor could she have
victoneter I'm talking about the vaccines, cures, and treatments people made using her cells. If those cells are a replica, it still belongs to Lacks and her family. If somebody made 1 billion dollars off finding something groundbreaking using your body, shouldn't you be entitled to it? I guess not because you didn't patent your body. That is pretty much what you are saying.
No, but to be fair, Lacks' family hasn't even asked.
Jay Manier
I would say that's uncalled for, which it is, but I'm more concerned about where it came from.
If someone would make beer out of my piss, I wouldnt be entitled for any kind of compensation.
WE COULD LIVE FOREVER LIKE HENRIETTA LACKS CELLS! -WINTER BLUES
What's up with these stupid comments?
Getting a random mutated cells through HPV is not an achievement, it's an accident. If anything the tissue specialist(whos name wasn't even mentioned) that understood the gravity and usefulness of this cell is the real hero in this.
That's not to say that Henrietta was not a hero, it's just she is an unintentional one.
I’m fascinated
I wish they'd use those Hela Cells to discover immortality soon! I don't care what some people think, I DO want to live forever, regardless of seeing my loved-ones die. it means I can have multiple lovers, multiple children, have a different life each century, and most of all; I'd get to witness going to different galaxies and the death of our Solar System! also, possibly the invention of time-travel, if it ever gets created and I'd get to go back in time to do it all over, and over, and over again!
None of that is ever going to happen. You are going to die. Just accept it.
I remember reading the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and it is crazy to think that it's been 96 years!
I watched this directly after Crash Course Philosophy, also featuring Hank.
Ethan & HeLa are pretty cool.
Can we have a moment for the terrible mistreatment of this black woman.
Cal down, it wasn't exactly the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
I read some comments that blew my mind RACISM will be immortal as well. THANK YOU Henrietta
I love you Hank!
She fused with hiv and cancer and gained immortality.
thanks henrietta
1 life gone but a billion saved
This is AWESOME. Most interesting vid I've seen in a while
Have a nice day everyone!
Thanks HeLa! :)
God bless you Henrietaa!!!! If only you knew what you've done for this world. Also, Stefan Chin your my hero!!!!!!!!!
Rest in piece Henrietta Lacks
We need to find her descendants and study that **** ASAP.
Oh my god I have to read a book about this for school!
So technically, she's still alive,and will likely stay alive , for many many years. She's immortal, and she can't even enjoy it
They're 101 by now. Crazy.
Now they are almost 101!
This was pretty cool. Today would've been my birthday too if I was born on time. Happy birthday Henrietta! Go genetics!