1. The Tuskegee Institute opens the first “HeLa factory,” supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit in 1952. The first company that would begin selling Hela for profit was called Microbiological Associates.
2. Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920.
3. George Gey successfully cultures the first immortal human cell line in 1952 using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix . The name of HeLa was given because her first two initials first and last names.
4. Scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine in 1952.
5. The name of the hospital where Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer is Johns Hopkins Hospital and it was founded in 1889.
6. HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned in 1953.
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