{"id":11529,"date":"2020-07-28T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2022-04-01T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:38:05","slug":"rebecca-skloot-henrietta-lacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/rebecca-skloot-henrietta-lacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Skloot: Introduced to HeLa Cells in High School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who is author Rebecca Skloot? Where did she get the idea for her book about Henrietta Lacks? How did Skloot research and write the book that went on to become an HBO miniseries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebecca Skloot is the author of <em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em>. She studied biology in college and became a science reporter before writing the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn about author Rebecca Skloot and what sparked her interest in Henrietta Lacks and her amazing cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>A massive bestseller when it was published in 2010 and the basis for an HBO miniseries of the same name, <em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em> tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, a young African-American woman killed by a particularly vicious form of cancer, and her incredible cancer cells, which opened up entirely new directions in scientific research due to their \u201cimmortality\u201d\u2014their capacity to grow rapidly and unstoppably outside of her body.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author Rebecca Skloot, who is also a science reporter, spent 10 years researching Henrietta Lacks, her family, and the scientific advances her indefatigable cells made possible. In the course of her reporting, Rebecca Skloot became close with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/deborah-lacks-pullum-hela\/\">Deborah Lacks<\/a>, Henrietta Lacks\u2019s daughter, and much of <em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em> is devoted to Deborah\u2019s struggles with her mother\u2019s absence and scientific legacy.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rebecca Skloot Learns About HeLa Cells<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Author Rebecca Skloot was introduced to Henrietta Lacks\u2014or, rather, her remarkable cells\u2014in a biology class when Skloot was 16.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebecca Skloot&#8217;s teacher was describing the parts and functions of cells. Cells resemble nothing so much as fried eggs: the white of the egg is the <em>cytoplasm<\/em>, which contains water and proteins to nourish the yolk of the egg\u2014the <em>nucleus<\/em>\u2014which contains the genetic material that dictates the cell\u2019s function.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cellular Function and HeLa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Cells divide through a process called <em>mitosis<\/em>. If something goes wrong during mitosis, even something minuscule, it can result in a cell growing and dividing uncontrollably\u2014<em>cancer<\/em>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists\u2019 understanding of how cancer operates increased enormously through the study of a particularly robust set of cancer cells taken from an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951 from cervical cancer. (Henrietta has also been known as Helen Lane and Helen Larson.)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henrietta\u2019s cancer cells reproduced unlike any other cells in human history. <strong>Whereas all human cells prior to Henrietta\u2019s died when removed from the human body and placed in a test tube or petri dish, Henrietta\u2019s reproduced consistently and continuously in culture: They were \u201cimmortal.\u201d<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henrietta\u2019s cells, dubbed \u201cHeLa\u201d (pronounced <em>hee-lah<\/em>) cells, have been used widely in scientific research. They were integral to the development of drugs to treat diseases like herpes and Parkinson\u2019s and to the study of ailments like STDs and appendicitis. In fact, <strong>HeLa cells have been so heavily relied upon that a scientist believes, if you lined up every HeLa cell ever grown, you\u2019d be able to circle Earth <\/strong><strong><em>three times<\/em><\/strong>. 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