The immortal life of Henrietta Lax. Sclut R.

Who has the right to our body, or its parts, or biomaterial taken for analyzes: We, doctors, scientists?.. For the first time, the "immortal" cells of the human body in the1950s managed to cultivate. This literally turned all the medical science. HELA cells helped to develop vaccines from poliomyelitis, reveal the secrets of cancer, viruses and the effect of a nuclear explosion; They helped to take important steps in the study of artificial fertilization, cloning and compilation of genetic cards.

and inevitably became the subject of “sale”: some rich, others did not suspect that they conduct “experiments”. < /p>

Now scientists could suspend the development of cells with any frequency during the experiment to compare the reaction of certain cells to the drug through one, two or six weeks.

This book is a dramatic story about The fate of a simple woman who gave the world her immortal cells, about honest and dishonest doctors, about bioetics, the birth of bioethics. Beautiful and dramatic scientific research, from which it is impossible to come off.