Is this the same individual credited with providing cells for the Polio vaccine? You know, the one that Jonah Salk perfected? All these years it’s been a lie that Salk came up with the vaccine. He had to have the help of a woman’s cells.
Who knew?
She had really aggressive cancer. The tumor was cultured and grew successfully.
Her cancer was so aggressive that the cells contaminated other experiments.
Her cancer was so aggressive 20 tons of it have been grown.
They just keep growing. It was a huge deal and helped progress a lot of medical science.
And if I understand correctly the original polio vaccine was grown in monkey kidneys that were infected with cancer that did end up causing cancer in the recipients of that vaccine.
I don’t know if the HELA cells were used in polio vaccine refinement.
Science moves in fits and starts and grinds through the bodies of people who are sacrificed to it for the greater good.