In 1965, two British scientist Henry Harris and Watkins fused HeLa cells with mouse cells and it created the first human-animal hybrids-cells whished it contained equal amounts of DNA from Henrietta and mouse. As a result, it helped made possible the study of what genes do, and how they work.
In 1966, Deborah had her first child, but her partner always hit her and she had to leave him. Her brothers Lawrence and Sonny were fine at that time but the other brother Joe was the problem of the family because he loved to fight. Joe spent most of his time in jail because he killed a boy.
In September 1966, was the “Second Decennial Review Conference on Cell Tissue and Organ Culture”. They were discussing the future of cell culture and how HeLa cells were contaminating others cells.
In 1970 Gey discovered that he had cancer in his pancreas. A few months later, he died. The next year, his colleges published their tribute to Gey in the journal, “Obstetrics and Gynecology”. Mentioned, was the original pathologist finding of Henrietta’s cancer. They said that her tumor was invasive, but not an epidermis carcinoma as originally diagnosed. In the some article they published the real name of HeLa and a picture of her.
Sonny took the writer to Lawrence who is the only one who remembered his mother, but also Day was there. The writer began to tell them about all important things that was happening with Henrietta’s cells. Then, Day told her about Henrietta.
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