HeLa Cells Today
Conclusion
The event in which discovering HeLa cells is one of the most monumental discoveries that has impacted not only people in the medicinal field, but most likely every person who has ever been to the doctor or has taken prescription drugs. Because of the endless possibilities that a scientist or doctor can do when testing on HeLa cells, it is most likely that the very substance that a doctor prescribes on a daily basis to any person has been once tested on HeLa cells.
Yes it has been known that other immortal cell lines have been discovered since the first discovery of the HeLa cell line, but who’s to say that those cell lines would have been discovered without the first recognition of what characteristics an immortal cell line has. Dr. Gey was the first doctor to discover an immortal cell line with Henrietta’s cells, but after him, it made it easier for other researchers to make those other discoveries.
To bring us back to the present, although many around the world may not know it, HeLa cells work every day in order to perfect the work of medicine and scientific research across the world. Though they do not change the lives of a person directly, in an indirect line of things, every day the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks help to save lives.
Yes it has been known that other immortal cell lines have been discovered since the first discovery of the HeLa cell line, but who’s to say that those cell lines would have been discovered without the first recognition of what characteristics an immortal cell line has. Dr. Gey was the first doctor to discover an immortal cell line with Henrietta’s cells, but after him, it made it easier for other researchers to make those other discoveries.
To bring us back to the present, although many around the world may not know it, HeLa cells work every day in order to perfect the work of medicine and scientific research across the world. Though they do not change the lives of a person directly, in an indirect line of things, every day the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks help to save lives.