Sunday, December 7, 2014

Henrietta Chp 25-28

Chapter 25-28

1.1976-John Moore discovers he has hairy-cell leukemia, a rare and deadly cancer that filled his spleen with malignant blood cells

2.1977-John Moore is given surgery to remove his spleen, his spleen weighed 22 pounds while a regular spleen weighed one pound

3.1983-John Moore receives a consent and becomes suspicious of Golde

4.1984-Moore sues Golde and UCLA for deceiving him and using his body for research without consent

5.1988-Moore appealed the case, the California Court of Appeals ruled in Moore's favor and Moore won the case

6.1981-After divorcing Cheetah, Deborah married James Pullum and the married couple opened up a little storefront church

7.1984-Harald, a German virologist, discovered a new strain of a sexually transmitted virus called Human Papilloma Virus 18

8.1961-A paper was published showing that normal cells each their limit when they've double about 50 times 

9.1996-BBC producer Adam Curtis grew interest in Henrietta's life and began to make a documentary on her

10.1996-Patillo organized the first annual HeLa Cancer Control Symposium at Morehouse School of Medicine

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